Re: Mirror of new export control regulations

[Brad Dolan <bdolan@USIT.NET>]

Looks like a trend.  

  In his day job, U.S. Army Maj. Ralph Peters is a strategist for the
  White House Drug czar.  In his spare time, he is a best-selling novelist
  - a kind of thinking man's Tom Clancy - whose previous five books have
  sales totaling at least a million copies world-wide. 
 
  [...H]is next novel, "Twilight of the Heroes," to be published next
  month (Avon, 464 pages, $6.50), is a sharp critique of the U.S. war
  against drug smuggling from South America.

  [...Peters says] a lot is going right in U.S. drug policy nowadays,
  which he calls "a disaster" before Gen. McCaffrey took over.

  [...] Using fiction, he says, lets him speak to a wider audience: "If I
  had written a clinical study of drug policy, it might have sold 2,000
  copies." [...]

    - WSJ, 11/12/96, review by T.E. Ricks, Pentagon Correspondent

In his day job, by the way, Maj. Peters authors articles arguing for
assassination of drug criminals and such.  Much more efficient than
bothering with evidence, trials, and such nuisances.

bd

On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:

> At 9:10 PM -0500 11/15/96, Alan Davidson wrote:
> >>http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/nov96-regs.htm
> >
> >
> >It gets even more interesting.  In addition to signing today's Executive
> >Order on encryption, the President also designated Ambassador David L.
> >Aaron as the new "Special Envoy for Cryptography."  (Really, I'm not making
> >this up.)
> 
> Could this be the same David Aaron who writes thriller novels about nuclear
> terrorism?
> 
> 
> (I don't know that it is, by the way, nor am I making a joke. A David
> Aaron, with also diplomatic ties, wrote at least one fine thriller some
> years back. If he's the crypto czar, he can probably spin an appropriately
> scary story to tell the recalcitrant Third Worlders he'll be dealing
> with...countries like France, Britain, etc.)
> 
> --Tim May
> 
> 
> "The government announcement is disastrous," said Jim Bidzos,.."We warned IBM
> that the National Security Agency would try to twist their technology."
> [NYT, 1996-10-02]
> We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed.
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> Timothy C. May              | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
> tcmay@got.net  408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
> W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA  | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
> Higher Power: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments.
> "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."
> 
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