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- From: pmetzger@snark.shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger)
- Subject: Re: RSA Data Security Not All Bad
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.215746.7594@shearson.com>
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- References: <1992Dec17.095122.19697@netcom.com> <SOWA.92Dec17133825@netcom.com> <1992Dec17.221652.4507@netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 21:57:46 GMT
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- strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
- >In article <SOWA.92Dec17133825@netcom.com> sowa@netcom.com (Erik Sowa) writes:
- >>
- >>Then the export restriction isn't protecting much, either.
- >>
- >referring to piracy of products overseas.
- >
- >I don't know if I understand him correctly, but it seems to me
- >that's arguing that if there are lots of thieves one shouldn't
- >bother with locks.
-
- Locks actually work in detering theft. Export restrictions on things
- that can be transported by phone line do virtually nothing. They are a
- joke. Unlike locks, which are successfull, such regulations succeeds
- only in breeding contempt for the law.
-
- --
- Perry Metzger pmetzger@shearson.com
- --
- "They can have my RSA key when they pry it from my cold dead fingers."
-