Apologies if this has been discussed and I somehow missed it. I just got back from Monte Carlo last night and have briefly scanned the 500+ accumulated messages, not seeing this item mentioned. Drew Taubman (sp?), the new Executive Director of the EFF, told me that in recent days the grand jury meeting in the PRZ case did in fact decide to go forward with the indictment. However, says Drew, the judge in the case dismissed the charges after looking at them, apparently in about an hour or so. He cited the absence of relevant law in the case (as I understand it, the argument being that there is no law against what PRZ did, i.e., "make code available" in such a way that _others_ might then access it and perhaps then illegally export it (assuming such export might be later proved to be illegal). Drew went on to tell me that the judge said there would need to be a relevant law on this, and that Senator Leahy and his staff (recall their involvement in the Digital Telephony Bill) are already at work drafting such legislation. I haven't seen mention of this, so I thought I'd mention it here. I could of course try to get confirmation first from Phil, but he is notoriously hard to reach in e-mail, ironically, and this seems sufficiently important to mention to the list. And if you can't trust the EFF, who _can_ you trust? (Don't answer that.) --Tim May -- .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero | knowledge, reputations, information markets, W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^859433 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. Cypherpunks list: majordomo@toad.com with body message of only: subscribe cypherpunks. FAQ available at ftp.netcom.com in pub/tc/tcmay