----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:49 PM Subject: Re: FW: [IP] China blocks foreign software
> On Maw, 2003-08-19 at 16:33, David Boyes wrote: > > Also, the spyware issue is particularly interesting -- having encountered > > several situations now where some of our overseas clients have located > > "additions" to deliveries that certainly were not specified at the > > manufacturer and could only have been added post-customs by a "governmental" > > power. > > > > Curious, and a bit on the chilling side -- America isn't supposed to be a > > police state, and this kind of behavior smacks of such. > > Its not a US thing. Everyone backdoors stuff when they can force it to > be done. One of the really *big* problems I have with current Wassenaar > based export policy (ie US, UK, AU, NZ, etc) is that because we make it > hard for people to export crypto chips (without our holes in them ;)) we > all use cheap foreign crypto chips (with their holes in them...) > > There are reasons US government secure stuff gets delivered encrypted, > signed and in tamperproof packaging 8) That would be Cigar boxes? :-?
