-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On the local San Fransisco Bay Area news early this morning (I think it was KRON, the local NBC affiliate -- I'm new around here), there was a story about RSA Inc. licensing encryption technology to the People's Republic of China -- about a $200 million deal, if I understood correctly. Given that RSA is a local company, care to guess how the story was presented? "Local hi-tech company makes inroads in global market?" "Restrictive government regulations make life tough for U.S. software companies?" No, the lead-in and thrust of the story was "Export of advanced technology will hamper U.S. spy efforts"! They had some heavily edited bits from Jim Bidzos, who at least got to make mention of the "genie being out of the bottle", and the fact that if they can't buy it from us, they'll get it from someone else, but the clueless newsies really butchered this one. RSA was made out to look like they were selling out their country to make a buck, over the protests of the government (in fact, the deal obviously received government approval). I don't know the details of the deal (I couldn't find anything on RSA's web page), but it sounded like the software was (as expected) export-crippled, though Bidzos made some comment about it being "upgradable". Anyone have any more details on this? I expect the report will air again -- maybe some Bay Area cpunks can catch it and provide some more feedback. There may even be an opportunity to educate the local media, though I don't hold out a lot of hope... - Tunny ______________________________________________________________________ James A. Tunnicliffe | WWWeb: http://www.inference.com/~tunny Inference Corporation | PGP Fingerprint: CA 23 E2 F3 AC 2D 0C 77 tunny@Inference.com | <--finger for key 36 07 D9 33 3D 32 53 9C ====================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMRduUPAmQsmyRPddAQHwDQf+Nj6JGXNe8sltA1kch0koSkc+2Lv3u1X9 ilDFdVWNtHGYZUMG9SgUvBGccZe8aZHzBIlk1N2GgUuhrrEAoXQCXdQGOEpAp4Tw 2/kjw6ZioZSIRNluvOnFh5d7D9lsfghXuVxSv0pDj+XNLE2lOW5PCYQI8e5a+tr0 j0EvUR5uSBW4a3OaEG9yigoVV/9EG2/sdA9QtEw2Au8vgffDll/QyhRJodBl2Q8g jmN23SetRrS+fppW6FM7ApXhJ8/1UlKw0jIADSgsTJ05HnGi+8ZrIoPJiC5VR9Cp Oo4hSFWtXxzr1zy1MbU2ltLXHvwiXOr67R9WzliZWlu3w2NX/syO1g== =0OQ5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----