illegal export of pgp.zip by .mil
http://braggbbs.bragg.army.mil/libs/utils.htm has a link to ftp://bbs.bragg.army.mil/library/utils/pgp262.zip Someone (from Europe, ideally) should clue these people in. Maybe cc the media. honig@alum.mit.edu ------------------ "Are we going after their tax returns? I can only hope that we are, frankly, doing a little persecuting" ---Nixon to Erlichman, on tax audits of wealth Jewish contributors to the Democrats. -LA Times 1.4.98
At 2:32 AM -0500 on 4/2/98, David Honig wrote:
http://braggbbs.bragg.army.mil/libs/utils.htm has a link to ftp://bbs.bragg.army.mil/library/utils/pgp262.zip
This is really nothing new. My understanding is that when Kelly Goen posted the original PGP to USENET, he set the distribution to US only, or at the very least North America only. However, some mis-configured news machine actually exported PGP to the rest of the world by ignoring the distribution request on those news messages. The machine in question had a .mil domain name. :-). Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/
Instead of making a fuss over this, we should thank the very wise and very smart sysadmins at these .mil machines for providing this wonderful service for us. By making themselves look totally clueless, they've provided for the spread of privacy and freedom of privacy! That's truly commendable! Personally, I will raise my next glass of beer in their honor! :) Robert Hettinga wrote:
At 2:32 AM -0500 on 4/2/98, David Honig wrote:
http://braggbbs.bragg.army.mil/libs/utils.htm has a link to ftp://bbs.bragg.army.mil/library/utils/pgp262.zip
This is really nothing new. My understanding is that when Kelly Goen posted the original PGP to USENET, he set the distribution to US only, or at the very least North America only.
However, some mis-configured news machine actually exported PGP to the rest of the world by ignoring the distribution request on those news messages.
The machine in question had a .mil domain name. :-).
Cheers, Bob Hettinga
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At 11:10 AM 4/2/98 -0500, Sunder wrote:
Instead of making a fuss over this, we should thank the very wise and very smart sysadmins at these .mil machines for providing this wonderful service for us. By making themselves look totally clueless, they've provided for the spread of privacy and freedom of privacy! That's truly commendable!
Personally, I will raise my next glass of beer in their honor! :)
As of 6:57 this morning, according to the timestamp in ftp://bbs.bragg.army.mil/library/ they removed pgp262.zip from their ftp site. Though of course they didn't bother to clean up their link to it :-P. Thanks to the civil servant readers of this list who phoned the boys at Bragg. The world is safe again. Apologies to the sysop who probably caught some abuse. ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig@otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu When exponentiation is outlawed, only outlaws will exponentiate.
Guys, what are you talking about? Just go through any proxy that ends with .us or .net or .com (or Anonymizer) and give any e-mail address from hotmail or yahoo.com or anything else - and MIT pgp will be yours in few minutes. If this means "restrictions" I'm sorry ;) Mike Sunder wrote:
Instead of making a fuss over this, we should thank the very wise and very smart sysadmins at these .mil machines for providing this wonderful service for us. By making themselves look totally clueless, they've provided for the spread of privacy and freedom of privacy! That's truly commendable!
Personally, I will raise my next glass of beer in their honor! :)
Robert Hettinga wrote:
At 2:32 AM -0500 on 4/2/98, David Honig wrote:
http://braggbbs.bragg.army.mil/libs/utils.htm has a link to ftp://bbs.bragg.army.mil/library/utils/pgp262.zip
This is really nothing new. My understanding is that when Kelly Goen posted the original PGP to USENET, he set the distribution to US only, or at the very least North America only.
However, some mis-configured news machine actually exported PGP to the rest of the world by ignoring the distribution request on those news messages.
The machine in question had a .mil domain name. :-).
Cheers, Bob Hettinga
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