On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
At 8:29 AM -0400 10/11/96, John Young wrote:
You assume that foreign buyers would not buy key-recovery products, but you ignore the trend -- especially in Europe -- to require use of key-recovery products and bar the import of stronger and stronger encryption products that do not take law enforcement into account.
So, because some countries will not allow import into _their_ countries of non-GAK software, this means GAK must be mandated on U.S. _exports_? Since when it is our responsibilty to enforce other nation's import laws? (Because Iran will not allow the import of blasphemous literature, should the USG ban all export of such material from the U.S.?)
Note that Mickey Kantor is doing _exactly_ what has been predicted on this very list: he is using the (very limited) response the US received from other countries by strongarming said countries into supporting a pro-GAK position to manipulate the American public into accepting GAK by pretending the US must respond to the requests of the world market. --Lucky, who hopes everybody on this list will vote for Harry Browne.