From: Asgaard <asgaard@sos.sll.se>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 08:30:14 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: ITAR double standards?
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On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Richard K. Moore wrote:

> velocity from terrestial anachronisms.  While Barlow's critics, it seems,
> demolished _that_ thesis as wishful thinking, there's a parallel thesis
> that may actually be true: that _corporate environments_ have achieved
> escape velocity from civil jurisdiction, and now live in a world where
> rules & ethics are relative only to corporate culture, and "parochial"
> national laws are to be quietly ignored, knowing there's a highly-paid
> legal staff to deal with occasional embarrasments.

I believe in this parallel thesis. As was reported from the dec -95
OECD meeting in Paris:

>The statement from SHELL International is interesting.
>They can accept 'a trustworthy international key escrow
>infrastructure based on X.509 certificates' but they also
>need to 'protect their assets against Government intelligence
>gathering, organised crime, civil unrest and data privacy
>legislation obligations'.


Asgaard