From: shabbir@vtw.org (Shabbir J. Safdar)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 17:37:13 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Boycott "Applied Cryptography" and AT&T and RSA
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VTW supports the Leahy/Goodlatte bill, since it helps to free lots and
lots of cryptography that is currently being crushed under the weight
of the Clinton Administration's cryptography export regulations.

-Shabbir J. Safdar * Online Representative * Voters Telecomm. Watch (VTW)
 http://www.vtw.org/ * Defending Your Rights In Cyberspace

PS AT&T makes so much money in a year that if everyone on cypherpunks
   switched to Sprint, it still probably wouldn't even put a dent in
   their annual budget for paperclips.

anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com writes:
>Bruce Schnier (Author of applied cryptography) and Matt Blaze (Who
>is a crypto bigwig at at&t) have made it clear that they support
>key escrow. Both have written letters in favor of the new crypto
>law, it creates a key escrow system and also other restricts on
>crypto. The letters are on the CDT homepage and i think were
>posted here.
>
>WHAT THE FUCK??????????????????????????????????????????
>
>EFF, EPIC, VTW and almost everyone else (except for Bizdos at RSA, hmmmm)
>have all come out against this piece of shit. But with these so called
>experts baking it it could pass anyway.
>
>Maybe the ltrs are a forgery? We should ask them, and if this is true, LETS
>SEND THEM A MESSAGE!!!!!!!! SWITCH YOUR PHONE SERVICE AND TELL AT&T WHY!!!
>STOP RECOMMENDING APPLIED CRYPTO (THERE ARE EASIER BOOKS ANYWAY). DEMAND
>THAT THESE PEOPLE STOP GIVING AWAY YOUR RIGHTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>their addresses are
>       schneier@counterpane.com
>       mab@crypto.com
>       jim@rsa.com
>