On Tue, 1 Oct 1996 19:34:23 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote:

As for IBM's involvement, they've played around with the NSA for decades. Nothing new there. Fortunately, today they're just a marginal player.

This is a very dangerous statement to make. IBM is nowhere near as powerful as they were, but they're still very solidly entrenched in the business world*. Money is what will ultimately decide this issue - if Bill Clinton's VISA was abused after a hacker sniffed a network transaction ITAR would be dead within seconds! * - people have said that OS/2 is dead. Well it turns out that IBM is making several *BILLION* in sales every year on it from their business deals. According to figures I've seen, they have a high percentage of the F500 market. # Chris Adams <adamsc@io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp # <cadams@acucobol.com> | send mail with subject "send PGPKEY" "That's our advantage at Microsoft; we set the standards and we can change them." --- Karen Hargrove, Microsoft (quoted in the Feb 1993 Unix Review editorial)