We even make an illusion to Monica's Cigar in a story in this week's Time. A Microsoft story I was working on died at the last moment, unfortunately. As for the crypto bills, there is no comparable Senate bill. Certainly this is not for lack of sponsors: Kyl and Feinstein would be glad to introduce it, and Kyl chairs a relevant subcommittee. But they wanted to see how far they'd get with McCain's bill, and now it's too late to do much, as Tim said. -Declan On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Tim May wrote:
At 6:53 AM -0700 9/7/98, Declan McCullagh wrote:
There is, offically, a proposal on the table to limit speech within the U.S. by restricting sale, manufacture, distribution, import of non-GAK'd crypto. A House committee approved that one year ago.
I'd forgotten about that little one. Of course, it has not gone anywhere (no Senate version or committee markup, right?), so I'm not yet ready to say there's official action on its way. And, fortunately, the session is over but for the shouting about Clinton and his cigars.
--Tim May
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