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Re: Rogue Governments Issuing Policy Tokens
On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, John Anonymous MacDonald wrote:
> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 07:33:51 -0800
> From: John Anonymous MacDonald <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Rogue Governments Issuing Policy Tokens
>
> "Timothy C. May" <[email protected]> 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.
You've obviously never been to or heard of Brussels.
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