Congress mulls crypto restrictions in response to attacks

David Honig honig at sprynet.com
Thu Sep 13 20:14:18 PDT 2001


At 04:17 PM 9/13/01 -0500, Aimee Farr wrote:
>Amateur radio was the first casualty after Pearl Harbor. Some criticize the
>action now, of course.
>
>~Aimee

Nice analogy.  However, it wasn't like there were 1e7 full-band HAM rigs
in lots of living rooms, back then.

The internet provides infinate bandwidth, vs. HAMs' little slices of
spectrum, or
cable's feeble Gigahertz pipe.

Japs were put in concentration camps after Pearl Harbor, too.





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