-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- jya> From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com> Subject: Crypto Export jya> Legislation? jya> The excerpt below is from the Wash Post article today. Does jya> anyone know the status of the Leahy/Goodlatte bills? jya> Industry also is fanning Congress's interest in taking a jya> bigger role in the encryption debate. "Without congressional jya> interest, the administration has no reason to liberalize jya> exports at all," said Becca Gould, director of policy at the jya> Business Software Alliance. "This issue is in Congress's jya> front yard because it affects the economy" as well as jya> U.S. citizens' privacy rights. jya> Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) and Rep. Robert W. Goodlatte jya> (R-Va.) agree. They plan to introduce bills in the Senate and jya> House aimed at loosening the restrictions on encryption. "The jya> federal government is taking an attitude that's based more in jya> the 1970s than in present time," said Leahy in a telephone jya> interview. I haven't seen Goodlatte's legislation, but I can safely say he doesn't have our privacy rights at heart. Bob Goodlatte (my local representative) was the CC toadie partially responsible for putting "indecent" back in the CDA. I don't trust him any further than I can spit on him. I'll keep an eye on this. I'm very suspicious of his intentions. - --mark ==> mark@evol.resnet.jmu.edu * http://evol.resnet.jmu.edu/~mark/ <== **WARNING** : The preceding message may have been indecent under the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Young children, the easily offended, and members of the Christian Coalition should not have viewed it. :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAwUBMTHUSgJ9CGSE+MitAQEwzgP+PEC7EskS+lSTrultrNgPZkp3cTseLC0Q pttGP2h+e90NhLVhOrcoLqpPP5BMkYR093FkfnkrhFiLyXe/HgzSeGH4i55yfxvy TvxvmMZg4P+DQ3JpTxu8Vznt/AeJBudGuGDXzH2IXUOhzvihVJ0CKGXtbn4z/5ra kjosg/mjAbI= =68jw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----