-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Michael Wilson wrote that Reuters wrote:
WASHINGTON (November 23, 1997 02:35 a.m. EST http://www.nando.net) - To conceal its deadliest arms from U.N. weapons inspectors, Iraq has increasingly turned to U.S.-made computers sold in Baghdad since the end of the 1991 Gulf War in violation of international sanctions, the Los Angeles Times reported in its Sunday editions.
Quoting U.S. officials and U.N. diplomats, the newspaper said that Iraqi scientists and defense officials are using Western-made computers to transfer data from bulky papers to small disks that can be easily dispersed, making the information difficult for inspectors to track.
This is an interesting development because it also makes it hard for the Iraqi government to track what is going on, too. The government of Iraq has been aware of the dangers of computers for many years. At one time they were tightly controlled. Even typewriters were controlled. The government had writing samples of each one. Now, apparently, this policy is loosening. This suggests that U.S. policy of the last 8 years has managed to achieve what Saddam Hussein could not - it has made the Hussein regime a genuinely popular government. Still, it can't be universally popular. How many cypherpunks live in Iraq? Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNHoZopaWtjSmRH/5AQG9ogf9FFdBqiwOk3gekieqIg3+Yr5pdaYM5/4v lIHPYuPM5IMpe8Wc1DX1FzG4YUC4hGMtj4w6eU8KNc3bSESVDPcU2boUVJtDjQp2 jUh13tKM/s6kwjQXKjH9j5G0cr1fsMrP9v7T4qNSEUA9VV8xI/Zqq7t/jLxncjSC jodmc/IcO5gPwxuvHLw8FR0/qpxuNJXSNWqzBptbT8vHldyPLg1E6rCOdWdNsDdN kvzyW9EXLbNWweK3ezFaWniytRbxE99poJN3iNcdsxjg94otIEpS3oCAJjuCmyrf HYRfv/Z5yzqpY5doAtdfy5RkvREwrINvCtLn+hgcBxQ0YTEDO8zUUg== =jyt7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----