At 9:05 AM -0500 on 12/10/98, Ken Williams wrote:
"Strike to protest Wassenaar!"
URL: http://www.zanshin.com/~bobg/
"This is a global call for computer professionals to strike on Monday, 14 December, 1998 to protest the signing of the Wassenaar Arrangement, an international treaty that imposes new restrictions on cryptographic software technology.
Now, *this* is interesting... Anyone actually contemplating doing this? I mean, we could *all* stand to do a little extra (meatspace) Christmas shopping on Monday, right? (Then, I guess, we could all do our cypherspace Christmas shopping on *Tuesday*, just to drive the point home, stick-and-carrot-wise...) Cheers, Robert Hettinga ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'