illegal export of pgp.zip by .mil

Mike blazer at mail.nevalink.ru
Fri Apr 3 11:51:35 PST 1998


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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