Re: WebTV a "munition"

[Rich Graves <rcgraves@ix.netcom.com>]

Eric Murray wrote:
> 
> Page 3 of the San Jose Mercury News has a small blurb
> about WebTV's browser/set-top box that "uses
> computer-security technology so powerful that the
> government is classifying it as a weapon
> that will require a special export license before
> it can be sold overseas".[...]
> shouldn't be too difficult.  If they didn't use the "export"
> level SSL CipherTypes, then what're they up to?  Are they
> fighting crypto export laws (for which they should be congratulated
> and supported) or are they just looking for free publicity?

Based on the lack of public policy pronouncements from the WebTV folks, 
I would answer C) They're clueless. I'm not sure that management even 
understood, or wanted to understand, that they'd have an export problem.
See http://www.webtv.net/

-rich