In <v04020a04b277c6d69429@[139.167.130.246]>, on 11/17/98 at 07:35 PM, Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> said:
TIS supports export controls on encryption products. My article: http://www.well.com/user/declan/pubs/cwd.shadow.cryptocrats.0298.txt
I doubt that TIS really cares one way or the other so long as they keep
William -- your speculation may be true, but for now we can settle for fact: they do support export controls. It makes sense, too: export ctrls create an artificial market for key recovery crypto, which TIS will be happy to sell to you. -Declan At 04:26 AM 11-18-98 -0500, William H. Geiger III wrote: their fat government contracts. Of course those same contracts require keeping the government happy (ie: supporting GAK), TIS and others (being the corporate whores that they are) will sell out their own mothers (and the rest of us along with them) if it looked good on the bottom line.
A real shame that PGP had to get mixed up with these vipers.
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