-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, Tom Weinstein wrote:
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:27:45 -0700 From: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com> To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: Netscape
Lucky Green wrote:
At 15:27 7/20/96, Tom Weinstein wrote:
Why not consider what the consequences will be? Do you seriously believe that this will make the government stop enforcing ITAR? Do you believe it will make them change the law? No. What it will do is make them remove our permission to distribute this stuff.
I doubt that. PGP has been distributed for years with less safeguards than Netscape. It is available on more free-world sites than Netscape US. This did not prompt the powers that be to force MIT to take down their site. The feds know that it is impossible to prevent software that is available on the net from being exported. Why would they harass Netscape once the inevitable happens?
Well, for starters, the genius who put it out there put out a beta, which has an expiration date, instead of waiting for the final release. Secondly, millions of people don't use PGP.
Hrmm.. a few glimpses at a hex->machine code chart and a simple hex editor should get past _that_ now shouldn't it?
Also, notice the simple verification system MIT was allowed to use, and the complex one we're required to use.
I'm curious, exactly whop is it that _required_ you to use that system.?
-- You should only break rules of style if you can | Tom Weinstein coherently explain what you gain by so doing. | tomw@netscape.com
Style is standing up for what you beleive in. Netscape obviously has none, or they would be activly fighting the ITAR. --Deviant Whatever occurs from love is always beyond good and evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMfUhSDAJap8fyDMVAQFZmAf+JaD4Z5wmt6qkyvJK1nhg8xjZF4z0LoGi AyhFZ8sAZCgcu65YVcH9NnwXgJCGdq/OK2eLZlydM8w/tnIZJtsgxnX5rf8gb7a2 zgC8G4lr8OPKZPDP/85z8au/sM5wkUZ/sR9w+yTBn+UOmLH9sl+1r07rzMku39Zj LTrCp6B9I0TjaTQjiZyUaiClp67nJxobGWPDByTMMqJeN34V79ikRPBTI/FzcxD9 mk+TwyIVrHqFC117o2X4GuJbDPPqIWRBNDM1MpWmdECOOGEpkPydnJxmub+IaeBu WN2wPNzE2m9FVHQ0YVIScIt4jw2t4rr46BxfeDT+UJPIkvvhq6+0Ww== =NKO0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----