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Subject: [Leica] Paris....Potos Illegal? Why?
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)
Date: Thu Jul 17 16:10:09 2008

Daniel,

No, the US intelligence agencies have for years pushed encryption for the 
public/commercial arenas.  Actually the EU (NATO) countries work hand in 
hand with the US agencies.  Canada also works with the US on this.

Gene

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Daniel Ridings" <dlridings@gmail.com>
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:11 AM,  <grduprey@mchsi.com> wrote:
> > Actually the US intelligence community have pushed for more encryption 
> > of 
> personal information for years.
> >
> > Gene
> 
> Something tells me you are mixing the EU up with the US. The EU has,
> for years, recommended encryption in order to hamper ECHELON, the US
> spy system:
> 
> http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do;jsessionid=EEF5CE91F5F995F43E2E46E
> 994A49DDF.node1?language=EN&pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+REPORT+A5-2001-0264+0+NOT+XML+V0/
> /EN
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/56e6d6
> 
> The US relaxed restrictions (in order to make a buck) eventually, but
> too late. PGP is out there.
> 
> http://www.ita.doc.gov/TD/PEC/enc922.htm
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Daniel
> 
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