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1996-11-05 - Re: British Telecom merger with MCI

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu (Simon Spero)
Message Hash: 51ab5d2ea0289f4c2a1c390c6b56e73d3d40f6b92991b7ba8a03cfe79643dddb
Message ID: <199611052048.PAA01743@homeport.org>
Reply To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.961105090403.5329B-100000@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
UTC Datetime: 1996-11-05 20:52:04 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 12:52:04 -0800 (PST)

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 12:52:04 -0800 (PST)
To: ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu (Simon Spero)
Subject: Re: British Telecom merger with MCI
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.961105090403.5329B-100000@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
Message-ID: <199611052048.PAA01743@homeport.org>
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Can you offer up examples of 3des export?  Demonstrating that the law
is arbitrarily enforced would probably be a big, big win on the 1st
ammendment grounds.  They can't censor Phil and not censor Stew Baker
for the same speech.

Adam


Simon Spero wrote:

| > Phil Karn failed to get an export license for 3des for foriegn offices
| > of Qualcomm, staffed by Americans.  See
| > www.eff.org/pub/Crypto/ITAR_export/nsa_3des_export_denial_0396.letter 
| 
| [whoops] 
| That's unusual - certainly, for the bigger companies it seems to be pretty
| automatic, especially for NATO countries. Of course, it could just be that 
| Phil is "known to the authorities". 
| 


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