Perry writes: | watched and learned of indicates to me that there are enough people | and companies with an interest here to raise a few million | dollars. Consider that Netscape alone is a very wealthy company that | would have its marketing plans strongly disrupted by this new piece of | congressional trash. Sun is also a probable ally. John Gage (Sun's chief technical officer?) regularly slams the ITARs, as does CEO Scott McNealy. It would seem that those who don't write code should be out advocating the positive uses of cryptography, and looking for groups who can effectively fight this the way people normally fight bad legistlation in Congress. Petitions don't work. Spending piles of cash does. Writing code works even better. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty I Support The Phil of any kind is lost all at Zimmermann legal defense fund once." -Hume http://www.netresponse.com/zldf ------------------ PGP.ZIP Part [001/713] ------------------- M4$L#!!0````(`">9ZQX3(*,_DG8!`-JF`P`'````4$=0+D581>S;=UQ3U__X M\9M!$E8,TT@PJ$10$1=*41%WW`KX$=Q[M5KK`&R%(HH+(T.M"S>NME8K=31N M:A$[K+5(K:O5BE405ZE:1"3?UTW`:K_]\/G\?O_^?CX>3^_-S;GGO,^\`^@W ------------------------------------------------------------- for next chunk to export --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/export/