[IWAR] US Army PGP export

From: Mark Hedges (hedgesat_private)
Date: Fri Apr 03 1998 - 10:51:12 PST

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>Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 09:33:46 -0800 (PST)
>From: Declan McCullagh <declanat_private>
>
>http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0,1042,1871,00.html
>
>The Netly News
>April 3, 1998
>
>         *  *  *
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>        Even the U.S. government doesn't seem to get its own export
>   rules, which prevent strong encryption from being freely distributed
>   on the Internet. The Army's Fort Bragg web site features a copy of PGP
>   2.6.2 that's available for anyone to download -- including those
>   international terrorists and drug cartel members that the FBI
>   constantly complains about. We did, just to check it out. And we're
>   not alone: 92 other people grabbed the file -- which the Army proudly
>   bills as "The ultimate in e-mail security!" -- from
>   bbs.bragg.army.mil.
>
>         *  *  *
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