WebTV a "munition"
Rich Graves
rcgraves at ix.netcom.com
Fri Nov 8 13:13:16 PST 1996
Eric Murray wrote:
>
> Page 3 of the San Jose Mercury News has a small blurb
> about WebTV's browser/set-top box that "uses
> computer-security technology so powerful that the
> government is classifying it as a weapon
> that will require a special export license before
> it can be sold overseas".[...]
> shouldn't be too difficult. If they didn't use the "export"
> level SSL CipherTypes, then what're they up to? Are they
> fighting crypto export laws (for which they should be congratulated
> and supported) or are they just looking for free publicity?
Based on the lack of public policy pronouncements from the WebTV folks,
I would answer C) They're clueless. I'm not sure that management even
understood, or wanted to understand, that they'd have an export problem.
See http://www.webtv.net/
-rich
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