What NAI is telling people

[Duncan Frissell]

At 09:06 PM 7/16/01 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>Of course there is no law or regulation that prohibits individuals
>from accepting encrypted email from the blacklist countries (or
>an ISP from forwarding it).
>
>Though perhaps government pressure or simple misunderstanding can
>explain the situation you encountered. I'd be interested in any
>verifiable info on this.
>
>-Declan

I did encounter a law firm in Bermuda who's server was set to block 
"binaries" that bounced PGP messages because they are "binary."  It was 
allegedly concerned about bandwidth, viruses, and inappropriate content..

Not the same thing of course.

DCF

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institutions that it subsidies.  But you cannot argue that government can 
guarantee their failure.  Government has no mechanism for guaranteeing the 
failure of powerful politically-connected institutions.  But these 
institutions *must* fail if