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[Fast troestlich zu wissen, dass etliche US-Parlamentarier offenbar auch nicht wesentlich wissender sind als unsere Polit-Elite. -AHH]
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Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 15:22:50 -0400
To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: FC: Cox report imperils crypto bills, White House says
Reply-to: declan@well.com
The combination of legislators and the Internet is a dangerous one.
It's dangerous for those of us who use the Internet because we get bad
laws. It's dangerous for the Congresscritter because he looks stupid.
-Declan
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http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/19864.html
Spy Report Imperils Crypto Bills
by Declan McCullagh
12:00 p.m. 25.May.99.PDT
WASHINGTON -- A new congressional
report claiming widespread technological
espionage by China will thwart any
changes to US encryption rules in the
near future, a top White House official
predicted Tuesday.
[...snip...]
Boucher said he also wanted to stop Web
sites from surreptitiously placing cookies
-- small data files used by Web sites to
track visitors -- on consumers' hard
drives. He said he had a bad experience
after enabling cookies and having his
browser repeatedly ask him for permission
to accept them.
"It really intimidates me. I clicked that
back on," said Boucher, a member of the
key Commerce and Judiciary committees.
[...snip...]
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