From: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 01:37:53 +0800
To: cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Re: Building crypto archives worldwide to foil US-built Berlin Walls (fwd)
Message-ID: <199812081647.KAA11529@einstein.ssz.com>
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> Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 17:28:59 +0100
> From: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de>
> Subject: Re: Building crypto archives worldwide to foil US-built Berlin Walls (fwd)

> For longer term it might be desirable to have a site in a crypto-
> politics neutral country (one that is unlikely to have crypto laws
> in foreseeable future) to which software could be uploaded.
> Downloading is then import and not subject to restriction.

Where? Where is there a country that has a social, economic, and legal
infrastructure of sufficient breadth but liberal views of speech to support
such an effort?

There are lots of little countries around but they have unstable
governments, no economy to speak of, limited telecommunications
infrastructure, etc.

It's fine and dandy to talk about this in the theoretic but the rubber has
to hit the road at some point.

There isn't such a country to be had.


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