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Re: Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995 (fwd)
On Thu, 13 Jul 1995, Marshall Clow wrote:
> > "Sec. 1030A. Racketeering-related crimes involving computers
> > "(a) It shall be unlawful--
> > . . .
> > "(2) to distribute computer software that encodes or encrypts
> > electronic or digital communications to computer networks that the
> > person distributing knows, or reasonably should know, is accessible to
> > foreign nationals and foreign governments, regardless of whether such
> > software has been designated nonexportable."
> >
> So much for compression software, too. :-(
> Pst! Anyone want a copy of gzip? PKZip? Drop*Stuff?
Those of you who have done complexity theory will take issue with the
word 'encode'--the fact that it is binary is an encoding scheme--a simple
one, but an encoding scheme in a language L2 nonetheless.
Ben.
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