From: nelson@crynwr.com
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 16:41:52 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Open letter to the NSA
Message-ID: <19960629061130.31403.qmail@ns.crynwr.com>
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You screwed up, guys.  If, instead of restricting the export of strong
crypto systems, you had instead encouraged it, you would have
prevented the development of foreign crypto expertise.  Look at South
Africa: we banned them armaments, so they created their own arms
industry.  Now they're a serious arms exporter.  You won in the
short-term and lost in the long-term.

Where is the wisdom needed to admit your mistake?  Missing, I'd say.

-russ <nelson@crynwr.com>    http://www.crynwr.com/~nelson
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