British Telecom merger with MCI

[David Lesher / hated by RBOC's in 5 states]

Simon Spero sez:
> 
> On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Adam Shostack wrote:
> > 
> > Phil Karn failed to get an export license for 3des for foriegn offices
> > of Qualcomm, staffed by Americans.  See
> > www.eff.org/pub/Crypto/ITAR_export/nsa_3des_export_denial_0396.letter 
> 
> That's unusual- certainly for the bigger companies

It is far worse. Every time Qualcomm wishes to send a bug fix to
their Hong Kong switch, they must go through the entire song&dance
re: NSA/Commerce/etc.

Clearly harassment of The Enemy by Big Brother.


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