-----Original Message----- From: Mok-Kong Shen [SMTP:mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de] Anonymous wrote:
Does it matter who might 'read' the material, in regards to the protection of free speech? Whether it is written so that Russians or computers might be able to read it? If source code is written on a napkin, it can be currently exported, but what if tomorrow a vendor announces a 'napkin computer' which can directly read from napkins akin to a super-low densiy floppy disc.
Put the source code on a neuro-disk and you can export it under any crypto law that can ever be invented till eternity.
M. K. Shen [Trei, Peter]
Tell that to the thousands forbidden to leave the nations which claim or claimed to own them, on the basis that they once had access to state secrets. The thankfully defunct Soviet Union regularly forbade dissidents to emigrate, on the basis that at some point in their lives they had had access to 'sensitive' information. I have no doubt that similar restrictions could be put in place in other nations. Peter Trei