[ISN] US Army PGP export [ISN Irony :)]

From: <jericho_at_dimensional.com>
Date: Sun 05 Apr 1998 - 03:59:46 CDT
[Moderator: I know, a little off topic, but this is so funny...]

http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0,1042,1871,00.html

The Netly News April 3, 1998

Even the U.S. government doesn't seem to get its own export rules, which
prevent strong encryption from being freely distributed on the Internet.
The Army's Fort Bragg web site features a copy of PGP 2.6.2 that's
available for anyone to download -- including those international
terrorists and drug cartel members that the FBI constantly complains
about. We did, just to check it out. And we're not alone: 92 other people
grabbed the file -- which the Army proudly bills as "The ultimate in
e-mail security!" -- from bbs.bragg.army.mil. 


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