From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 09:38:08 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Crippled Notes export encryption
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At 14:49 1/24/96, Alex Strasheim wrote:

>Big companies like Netscape, Sun, Microsoft, and IBM/Lotus, on the other
>hand, will almost certainly achieve their objectives if they win the
>political fight.  They'll make buckets of money selling crypto software
>abroad.  And if they lose the fight, they're going to be handing big
>opportunities to foreign competitors.

The big companies are fighting? Where did you get that idea? IBM/Lotus just
gave the feds the keys. Not a single one of the major players has
challenged the government in any meaningful way. Sure, they make a lot of
noise as to how they dislike the regulations, but they certainly aren't
making a sincere effort of trying to change them.


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