From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr. Dimitri Vulis)
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 07:50:55 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: [NOISE] Consolidation of threads ...
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olbon@dynetics.com (Clay Olbon II) writes:

> OK, I have a proposal that consolidates two threads that have been
> discussed recently.  How about proposing legislation that mandates that a
> byte is now 9 bits instead of 8.  This would allow the ninth bit to be the
> decent/indecent bit, thereby solving all of our problems.

Hmm. In the days of COCOM (a relative of ITAR) there was a doctrine that
individual pieces of a mosaic may be unclassified, yet together they may
form a whole that needs to be export-controlled.

Likewise 8-bit values 0x46,0x55,0x43,0x4B may not be obscene individually,
but together they comprise a vile, CDA-prohibited obscenity.

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Dr. Dimitri Vulis
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