At 8:23 PM +0200 3/28/00, Bo Elkjaer wrote: >This just in: The danish minister of trade Pia Gjellerup has >announced that Denmark will work for the abolishment of the part >of the Wassenaar Arrangement that concerns restriction on export of >encryption. More: The EU parliament will demand that an investigative >committee will be established to research Echelon. >Developing... If the Danes and others are free to use strong crypto, how will the UKUSA consortium gain commercial knowledge on what their industrial companies are planning? How will American chip companies be able to buy Danish chip companies at the most favorable prices if the Commercial Intelligence Directorate of the NSA has not provided them with critical company communications? We urgently need Wassenaar, Clipper, and Echelon so as to maintain American hegemony. --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.
