Re: Rogue Governments Issuing Policy Tokens

[Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>]

At 07:33 AM 11/20/96 -0800, John Anonymous MacDonald wrote:
>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.

Particularly since Libya bought a bunch of "oil drilling rig transport
trucks" from Oshkosh Truck Corp in the '70s and hired a bunch of Brits to
convert them into tank transporters.  Didn't help them against the deadly
Toyota pickups of the Chadian Defense Forces though.

DCF