On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 10:23:41PM +0100, pumpkin@cotse.net wrote 1.4K bytes in 42 lines about: : http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/30/pakistan-bans-encryption-softwar... I talked to someone from the pakistani government about this encryption ban early this spring. They were concerned that this law would be far too broad and demolish whatever nascent e-commerce and online banking markets that had started in the country. They were also concerned that too many people in the government didn't understand the difference between a VPN and HTTPS. This person talked to American counter-terrorism people and found that actual terrorists were not using VPNs nor HTTPS at all. They stating right out in the open, from their registered DSL lines, their plans, where they lived, and what they were planning to do on various online chat network and forums. While technically, yes this law does make anything that uses encryption on the Internet in pakistan illegal, it was primarily aimed at the various VPN providers run by known criminal organizations. Tor, HTTPS Everywhere, and other tools are now illegal. Whether someone is actually prosecuted for using such tools in country remains to be seen. -- Andrew pgp key: 0x74ED336B _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE