Congress mulls crypto restrictions in response to attacks
Aimee Farr
aimee.farr at pobox.com
Thu Sep 13 22:00:13 PDT 2001
> At 04:17 PM 9/13/01 -0500, Aimee Farr wrote:
> >Amateur radio was the first casualty after Pearl Harbor. Some
> criticize the
> >action now, of course.
> >
> >~Aimee
Honig:
> Nice analogy. However, it wasn't like there were 1e7 full-band HAM rigs
> in lots of living rooms, back then.
Agree. Just came to mind.
> The internet provides infinate bandwidth, vs. HAMs' little slices of
> spectrum, or
> cable's feeble Gigahertz pipe.
Like the sky. Hm. "Open Skies." Eisenhower. That's a scary line of
thought...
How would "backdoor" cooperation be reconciled with heightened concerns over
privatized economic espionage? (Is there a conflict? Is that not a new
element, at least in terms of international concern?)
~Aimee
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