On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 09, 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "[OT] proposed israeli laws 
>regarding internet and encryption":
>
> Note that there's a difference between allowing export or importing some
> encryption technology, and allowing actually using it. If you somehow manage
> to get yourself a gun, does that mean you're allowed to use it? Of course
> not! Similarly the fact that some encryption software is easily obtainable
> (as open source, Internet Explorer, encryption hardwer, or whatever) does
> not mean that it can be legally used in Israel.

Yes, but they try to scare us here from small group of not
highly-organized terrorists. In this context if the technology is
availble it can be used, whether it is legal or not.

This is one point where the "terrorism" reasoning is not useful.

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir



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