From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 05:51:00 +0800
To: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <packrat@tartarus.uwa.edu.au
Subject: Re: more RANTING about NSA-friendly cpunks
Message-ID: <199601282130.NAA29294@netcom6.netcom.com>
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At  1:04 PM 1/28/96 -0800, Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote:
>Zimmermann supports my contention, as I wrote in the post. NOTHING
>happened to him. it is conceivable this same result could have
>been arrived at (government drops investigation) if he never even 
>hired a lawyer.
>
>Zimmermann is a perfect example of what may be counterproductive
>hysteria on *our* side, toward advancing crypto. if Zimmermann
>cannot be prosecuted, and is not prosecuted, where are the ITAR "teeth"???

I am not a lawyer, but I suspect that the proscuters gave up because they
could not build a trail of evidence between Zimmermann and the actual
export.  After all, Zimmermann only wrote PGP.  He didn't post it on the
net.


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