-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cypherpunks@toad.com Date: Sun Dec 08 12:31:34 1996 http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/9arms.htm US News has an interesting story by by Peter Cary, Douglas Pasternak and Penny Loeb, about big mother's great care in disposing of surplus munitions; including, but not at all limited to, the encryption variety. For sale are attack helicopter parts, bombs, missiles, guidance systems, howitzer parts, computers, and yes, military cryptosystems. While by law all these things are supposed to be "demilitarized," they aren't, in many cases. They are instead evidently sold as scrap (and at scrap prices) and go to nice countries like China. Maybe I'm missing something or being fooled, if it were closer to April 1st, I would doubt that this story is real. According to an assistant U.S. attorney in Sacramento, "The scope of this program and the amount of materiel going out the door is so huge, people normally don't believe you. Only the government could have a program where they give everything away for free and they screw it up." I couldn't have said it better myself... <sigh> And *they* think _WE_ need more "gun control." JMR Regards, Jim Ray DNRC Minister of Encryption Advocacy One of the "legitimate concerns of law enforcement" seems to be that I was born innocent until proven guilty and not the other way around. -- me Please note new 2000bit PGPkey & address <jmr@shopmiami.com> PGP id.A7D63DA9 98 1F 39 BA 93 86 B4 F5 57 52 64 0E DA BA 2C 71 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEPAwUBMqr7ezUhsGSn1j2pAQEybwfPSUQ4pPXDFtCBvMAoBXpSQm7QcY3Qp/Dr jVFrHhxuyTz+jpcHMxE9AKt468UL60CrVVNZ/vPYlz9/nuabHVgKEB5F9hvuR7zj jP67eGpeO5ck3vttQDiyvB3DzkaSqaJVre01dXoL3OenXRYnd7HVLg2S8HzdERqv gIHMIbFE5wMd7wjG7YkCwzVFVD7aK+erxuuI0lNA8b8/sfEkhdJUw1FMOJsIUh6R qbQi4GFipIcTuUcipYiKgq73gb7b9KTT9SvERQ9i2acfPIBPILoi0vsJc+46Dukh CC0pFdpDbvefYYqeAiPEzUMdQY5PxLtSVp+Wk5pRvnVw+A== =DQYX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----