From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 00:52:59 +0800
To: stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Cuban Security Conference
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At 01:22 PM 10/30/95 -0500, s1113645@tesla.cc.uottawa.ca wrote:
> For that matter is civilian use of strong (or any other kind) crypto actually
> legal in Cuba? Anyone know the policies? (duh, lemme guess...)

Well everything is legal in Cuba since there are no discernable laws, only
policies, however at they time that I visited Cuba those phones available
to ordinary citizens had a phonekeeper seated right beside the phone.

On the other hand, no one would stop you setting up a data haven or
some such in Cuba, provided it was strictly off limits to Cubans, 
but you could not set up a bank, because sooner or later somebody 
quite important would help themselves to the banks assets.

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