Congress mulls crypto restrictions in response to attacks

[Aimee Farr]

> 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

Honig:

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

Agree. Just came to mind.

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

Like the sky. Hm. "Open Skies." Eisenhower. That's a scary line of
thought...

How would "backdoor" cooperation be reconciled with heightened concerns over
privatized economic espionage? (Is there a conflict? Is that not a new
element, at least in terms of international concern?)

~Aimee