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I appreciate William's comments, but he fails to understand the reality of the situation. Let's forget about the "furtherance" provision for a moment.
Congress is not passing a new law in lifting export controls. Rather, it is reducing the sweep of one it already passed that the White House has abused.
Well that is another issues that I had not addressed in my post: The Userping of powers relegated to the Legislative Branch by the Excutive Branch via Executive Order. If Congress was intrested in doing the "right thing" then law they should be passing should be quite small stating that the Executive Order is Unconstitutional and by an Act of Congress is Repealed. This is not what they are doing. What they are saying with SAFE is that you have no Constitutional Rights on this issue but because we are nice guys we are going to pass a law making it legal, oh by the way we are going to tack a few riders on here for our own purposes. The whole approach to this issue is wrong. There is *no* valid law restricting the export of crypto. Any attempts to enforce such an invald law should be delt with in the courts. I find that it sets a scary presedent that I *need* congress permission before I can exercise my Constutionally Protected Rights. - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. Finger whgiii@amaranth.com for PGP Key and other info - ----------------------------------------------------------- Tag-O-Matic: OS/2: Your brain. Windows: Your brain on drugs. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Registered User E-Secure v1.1 ES000000 iQCVAwUBM3nwVY9Co1n+aLhhAQGxrgP8DSQtMaG1QH0xDYUHuvSc9KOebxXHTojM 6f21c3cKnc9kNjgO4Tqju3SQTy5mWOtyWRtzdJ+1SsUxhiNOqOnY7eXRIteViP2K wujrKge2UqJeNOhINpwiHYbqqbA/XLXPzuyaNyegzmHSmxJCwSxhNstP25l4BSI2 3GmLswHI2M8= =fIjb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----