> >use of the Internet to distribute encryption products
> >will render Wassenaar's controls immaterial."
>
> The bitch is getting a clue. :)
No, that's not it.
* Wassenaar was never intended to control civilian crypto.
* Wassenaar never did control civilian crypto.
* Therefore nothing "rendered wassenaar's controls immaterial",
since they didn't exist in the first place. (see footnote*)
* However, the US is attempting to deliberately and cynically
use that weapons control regime to control citizens worldwide
who are exercising their civil rights.
* Which lends further credence to the idea that 'the bitch' is
a traitor to her own country's Constitution as well as a
significant threat to the human rights of everyone on earth.
If Ms. Reno had a clue, she'd fire Louis Freeh, publish PGP and
CryptoMozilla on the DoJ web site, prevent crimes instead of fighting
crimes, and advocate civil rights instead of destroying civil rights.
Every other country that has seriously studied the crypto issue has
come to this conclusion, unless it already treated its citizens like
dirt, or its heart was in a storage locker owned by the US Government.
Why do other countries' governments work so much better on this issue
than our own goverment? Does it have anything to do with a massive
secret agency, unaccountable to the public, whose ox is being gored?
Can you spell "corruption", kiddies?
John
* footnote: Actually, Wassenaar used to control military crypto gear.
To the extent that commercial, civilian crypto software is now a
functional replacement for controlled military crypto gear,
despite the fact that it has never been designed for military use,
perhaps Wassenaar's controls *have* been rendered immaterial. But the
cure is not to deny civilians the freedom to invent and communicate,
the cure is to adapt one's self to the new world, as we have adapted
to thousands of other technology-based changes including today's
capability for widespread interception.
