Global Strike to protest Wassenaar

[Robert Hettinga]

At 9:05 AM -0500 on 12/10/98, Ken Williams wrote:

> "Strike to protest Wassenaar!"
>
> URL:  http://www.zanshin.com/~bobg/
>
> "This is a global call for computer professionals to strike on
> Monday, 14 December, 1998 to protest the signing of the Wassenaar
> Arrangement, an international treaty that imposes new restrictions
> on cryptographic software technology.

Now, *this* is interesting...

Anyone actually contemplating doing this?

I mean, we could *all* stand to do a little extra (meatspace) Christmas
shopping on Monday, right?

(Then, I guess, we could all do our cypherspace Christmas shopping on
*Tuesday*, just to drive the point home, stick-and-carrot-wise...)



Cheers,
Robert Hettinga
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah at philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
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