At 08:59 AM 12/12/1999 -0500, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote:
As I recall, classified documents are required to carry a legend on
each page saying something like "This document contains information
affecting the national defense within the meaning of the espionage
laws, Title 18 793 and 794, the
Documents were being stamped Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret
under the regulations of various US government departments long
before the string of Executive Orders. (The first was 10290,
"Prescribing Regulations Establishing Minimum Standards for the
Classification, Transmission, and
It would be one thing if this law (enacted in 1950) restricted government
employees or contractors from disclosing cryptographic or COMINT info they
agreed to keep secret. But it seems to apply to anyone, including
journalists or cypherpunks, no matter how they obtained the data. That
raises
I beleive Justice Douglas made mention of this law in the Pentagon
Papers case as well, though the US did not bring this up in their case
agaisnt the Times Post.
Declan McCullagh wrote:
It would be one thing if this law (enacted in 1950) restricted government
employees or contractors from
