At 04:05 PM 11/2/03 +1300, Peter Gutmann wrote:

Still... it occurs to me that the State department is setting itself up for a DOS attack -- what would happen if 10% of all US academics were to apply for one of these licenses?

It would facilitate the blacklisting and later roundup. And hmm, where do academics get their $ from? Any questions? Imagine McCarthy with computers. McCarthy on a paranoid speed binge, with computers. Or don't imagine, just visit DC. Hmm, if it didn't cause problems for the list maintainers I'd post some technical queries from a spoofed address from an axis of whatever nation. Then again, maybe I'm from an axis country spoofing the US, and you're all as fucked as a Chinook with a SAM locking onto its tail :-) ---- Of course there are limits in regards to freedom of speech. They are as follows: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Everything else is, of course, allowed. -Sunder