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Index of Subjects On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Sean Garagan wrote: > On Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 01:43:15PM -0400, Jamie Fifield wrote: > > I've seen some mention that this latest abomination excludes "Public > > Domain Software"; which would probably include CSuite. However, that > > exclusion would probably be too intelligent a move by politicians, so I'm > > not getting my hopes up. > > > > I'm getting pretty sick of this whole regulated and restricted > > information. Fsck Canada, I'll move somewhere else without such stupid > > policies. > > > Hi Jamie, > > Then you better be prepared to move to somewhere in the third world. Most > of the first world nations are joining in this one. At first, I thought it > meant a trade block, so that countries within the block could trade in > encryption but not to countries outside of it. This is just another example > of politicians trying to fix a problem by hitting it with the biggest hammer > they can find. Well, this agreement is not legally binding. Each individual country has to go back and pass it in their own "democratic" fashion. Finland's already seems to have shruged this off somewhat. I don't know, and to be honest, I don't really care anymore. I'll distribute crypto products legally or I'll distribute them anonymously illegally. > > Excluded in this is measure are things like music and video technologies to > prevent copying. I hope you enjoyed your freedom in the past, it is a lost > commodity in the future. Only if you care about obeying the law will you lose your freedom and your privacy. > Sean > -- Jamie Fifield <fifield@cs.dal.ca> Black holes are where God divided by zero.
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