Re: WebTV a "munition"

[Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>]

Rich Graves wrote:
> 
> Eric Murray wrote:
> >
> > Page 3 of the San Jose Mercury News has a small blurb
> > about WebTV's browser/set-top box that "uses
> > computer-security technology so powerful that the
> > government is classifying it as a weapon
> > that will require a special export license before
> > it can be sold overseas".[...]
> > shouldn't be too difficult.  If they didn't use the "export"
> > level SSL CipherTypes, then what're they up to?  Are they
> > fighting crypto export laws (for which they should be congratulated
> > and supported) or are they just looking for free publicity?
> 
> Based on the lack of public policy pronouncements from the WebTV
> folks, I would answer C) They're clueless. I'm not sure that
> management even understood, or wanted to understand, that they'd have
> an export problem.
> See http://www.webtv.net/

Since Pablo Calamera works there, they can't be too clueless.

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