From: Arun Mehta <amehta@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in>
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 21:11:58 +0800
To: David Sternlight <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Borders *are* transparent
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At 02:08 19/07/96 -0700, David Sternlight wrote:
>At 11:24 AM -0700 7/18/96, Timothy C. May wrote:
>
>>This is a terribly important point: if a citizen of Foobaria succeeds in
>>connecting to the Netscape site--perhaps by experimenting with various
>>combinations of domain names and submitted address/zipcode
>>combinations--and Netscape sends him the file, he has not committed a crime
>>in his own country. (Unless they have their own laws....)
...
> It won't be readily available though, except for
>those who have no compunctions about software piracy.

Is enought information available for someone else to write
software that would be able to 
communicate with Netscape's at the US-level of crypto? If so, the
US government is simply
forcing Netscape to open a window of opportunity for some foreign
software company to come up with a competing product for the
international market. A case of cutting off your nose to spite your face?
Arun Mehta Phone +91-11-6841172, 6849103 amehta@cpsr.org
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