News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

[Declan McCullagh]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 06:48:24PM -0700, Greg Broiles wrote:
> When you talk about "collaborating" and ZKS selling beta software to the 
> NSA, are you saying you've got information that ZKS gave the NSA access to 
> more information than the general public got, and/or that the NSA got their 
> access or information meaningfully earlier than the general public?
> 
> If that's the case, that's interesting, but that's too serious a claim to 
> let pass by as an unstated implication.
> 
> If that's not the case - and they had the same access to the Freedom beta 
> code that the rest of us outsiders/Cypherpunks/critics/commentators did - 
> then I don't see an issue here.

Right. Selling the same products to the Feds that are available to the
general public is not generally objectionable, and I don't see what the
issue is with ZKS here.

One might as well complain about the NSA buying symbolic debuggers.

-Declan