Re: Strike to protest Wassenaar!

Ron Resnick (resnick@interlog.com)
Thu, 10 Dec 1998 19:26:23 +0200


Robert Harley wrote:
>
> I invite all thinking people to check out:
>
> http://www.zanshin.com/~bobg/

Culled from above url:

> Is your country among the Wassenaar signatories?
>
> Argentina; Australia; Austria; Belgium; Bulgaria; Canada;
> Czech Republic; Denmark; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary;
> Ireland; Italy; Japan; Republic of Korea; Luxembourg; The Netherlands;
> New Zealand; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Russia; Slovakia;
> Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Turkey; Ukraine; United Kingdom; United
> States.
>
> If so, you've just lost some rights you may not have been aware
>
> ...
>
> After Wassenaar, the major industrialized nations will not be able to
> export cryptographic software. Each nation will have to develop its
> own software, or rely on exports from Third World countries (or others
> that aren't Wassenaar signatories).
>

Get yer red-hot crypto software from the Third World country
of Israel, not a signatory according to above list ;).