RE: Junger et al.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mok-Kong Shen [SMTP:mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de]
> Anonymous wrote:
> 
> > Does it matter who might 'read' the material, in regards to the
> protection
> > of free speech? Whether it is written so that Russians or computers
> might
> > be able to read it? If source code is written on a napkin, it can be
> > currently exported, but what if tomorrow a vendor announces a 'napkin
> > computer' which can directly read from napkins akin to a super-low
> densiy
> > floppy disc.
> 
> Put the source code on a neuro-disk and you can export it under
> any crypto law that can ever be invented till eternity.
> 
> M. K. Shen
	[Trei, Peter]  

	Tell that to the thousands forbidden to leave the nations
	which claim or claimed to own them, on the basis that they
	once had access to state secrets.

	The thankfully defunct Soviet Union regularly forbade 
	dissidents to emigrate, on the basis that at some point
	in their lives they had had access to 'sensitive' information.

	I have no doubt that similar restrictions could be put in
	place in other nations.

	Peter Trei

Trei, Peter wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mok-Kong Shen [SMTP:mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de]

> > Put the source code on a neuro-disk and you can export it under
> > any crypto law that can ever be invented till eternity.

>         Tell that to the thousands forbidden to leave the nations
>         which claim or claimed to own them, on the basis that they
>         once had access to state secrets.

I know the unfortunate truth of that. But I was excluding the
exceptions and referring to disks that are new.

>        I have no doubt that similar restrictions could be put in
>        place in other nations.

It is my conjecture that the chance of that happening in some
countries that are not considered to be democratic is lower.

M. K. Shen