[FYI] /. Articles:Microsoft NSA key Follow-Up

[Kristian Köhntopp <kk@netuse.de>]

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=99/09/09/138209&cid=42

"Microsoft NSA key Follow-Up" | kris (824) | Preferences | Top | 145 comments 


You made the laws, now enforce them! (Score:4, Insightful)
by Greyfox (nride@uswest.net) on 15:15 9th September, 1999 CET (#42)
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Microsoft or the MUTT team or Phil Zimmerman, exporting a crypto API is exporting a crypto API and illegal under the current US Crypto laws. Since Microsoft is breaking those very clear laws by shipping NT with a replacable key, every single one of us should demand that the US Commerce department pursue this case with exactly the same level of zeal with which they pursued Phil Zimmerman. Why haven't they already stopped all
shipments of NT out of the country? Certainly if Phil was shipping PGP out of Redmond, the men in black would have already stormed his office and confiscated all his computer equipment. 

Or are we proving once more that if you have enough money, you're above the law?

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