At 9:48 AM -0700 on 2/1/00, NewsScan wrote: > COMPANIES IGNORE CHINA'S ENCRYPTION REGULATIONS > If everyone covered by China's new regulations on encryption registration > had complied, about nine million Internet users would have shown up in one > tiny government office to hand-deliver a form specifying what kind of > encryption they used on their computers. Instead, only a handful of people > showed up. Chinese officials have said there will be no extension of the > deadline, but apparently have not yet decided what to do about the companies > that missed it -- a group that includes virtually every Chinese and foreign > company doing business in China. (Reuters/New York Times 1 Feb 2000) > http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/02/biztech/articles/01china-encryptio > n.html ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'