From: "Bruce Balden" <balden@mail.bc.rogers.wave.ca>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 06:36:33 +0800
To: "David Honig" <tcmay@got.net>
Subject: Re: Can I do Pubkic Domain that -
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Exportability rules are based up the notion that the USA has the best
technology (perhaps true) and that non-Americans, such as the notorious
Chinese, are too far behind.

Whereas the truth is that many countries in the have the necessary
technology and have possessed it for a long time.  There is absolutely no
evidence that the US gov't crypto export rules are impeding drug cartels in
the least.

So there is a peverse mix cognitive dissonance, xenophobia ("what do those
chinks know anyway?!!), and sycophantism (telling the President what he
wants to hear).

Somebody please tell me how this idiocy can persist.

-----Original Message-----

>At 12:58 PM 12/18/97 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>>At 12:04 PM -0700 12/18/97, David Honig wrote:
>>>At 06:33 PM 12/17/97 -0800, Bruce Balden wrote:
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>>>>Those guys just never learn that not only is the barn door open, but
that
>>>>contents were never theirs to begin with.
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>>>They blew their chance to regulate *computers* as military tech.
>>>Computers, after all, were developed by the military for ballistic,
bombs,
>>>and codes.
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>>I can't follow your logic here. Several points:
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>The develoment of computers can be traced along numerous threads.  One
>thread (from say the 40's to 50's)
>traces the encouragement of the codebreaking, ballistics, h-bomb fluid
>dynamics, and missile
>control community.
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>By the 50's the computer was done, and improvements were just making better
>implementations.
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>It is admittedly oversimplifying to follow only one thread (e.g., only
>mathematical or engineering development),
>but in the early days (way before intel) computers were built for the uses
>I describe.
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