Re: Netscape and NSA

[Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>]

Alex Strasheim wrote:
> It would be good for everyone if Netscape took a more aggressive political
> stand for free access to strong crypto.  How?  Expand the crypto coverage
> on Netscape's web server.  Hire a full time person to write about crypto
> technology and issues.  Put a link to the site on the Netscape home page.
> Netscape's home page links are the most visible on the net -- use them.
> Get together with companies like Sun and Microsoft to form a lobbying and
> publicity organization similar to the Tobacco Institute.  (I know that's a
> bad example -- many people think the Tobacco Institute is an evil
> organization.  But it's a good tactic.)

  This is the sort of stuff we are starting to do.  Expect to see it
over the next few months.  Jim Barksdale's comments at the RSA conference
this week are part of this effort.

	--Jeff

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Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
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