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- From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
- Subject: Re: pkz204c.exe is out, finally ...
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:50:38 GMT
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- robert@alkymi.unit.no (Robert Schmidt) writes:
- >Hasn't someone already broken the law by handing the file to garbo,
- >which is a finnish site? I guess garbo can't be blamed for making
- >the file public, though, as the law doesn't affect them.
-
- >I myself had no problem getting this non-export version, even though I
- >live in Norway.
-
- It's much like most speed limits and other stupid laws... the only bad
- thing about violating the law is getting caught. There's no moral,
- ethical, or other dilemmas in breaking a bad law, as far as most are
- concerned, and this is one of the worst. That would imply some sort
- of respect for the legislators and enforcement agencies other than
- fear of getting caught. The newletters devoted to the subject are a
- good example of how respected laws are that forbid listening to
- cellular calls.
-
- Consider that all someone from out of the country has to do to get it
- is call the PKWare BBS (or any US BBS that has the program) direct. I
- know that one of the first DES applications (another "forbidden
- export" technology) came from Denmark.
-
- Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law
- of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
- -- Albert Einstein
-
- and, of course
-
- It is difficult to legislate morality in the absence of moral legislators.
-
-
- --
- If a midget horse is an ass and a male sheep is a ram, why is a ram in the ass
- a goose?
-