Re: Rogue Governments Issuing Policy Tokens

[nobody@cypherpunks.ca (John Anonymous MacDonald)]

"Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net> writes:

> I mention Libya as an extreme example (the same example cited in the
> Fiat-Shamir "is-a-person" example of rogue governments issuing passports).
> The examples above are likely targets for policy card exports, though. The
> issue is clear: the list of "fully-compliant" nations is short indeed, and
> few nations are going to accept imports of U.S. technology in which the
> U.S. government sets the policy on how and where the imports may be used.

Most "dual-use" items are export-restricted to Lybia.  That means US
businesses will have trouble selling any computers or even things like
trucks to Lybia.  For crypto tokens not to be available there does not
seem to be a huge deal, in comparison with everything else.