Re: Update on USG, Software, and the First Amendment
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 02:20:36PM -0400, Robert J. Hansen wrote: Just received word back from a friend of mine who's a law professor focusing in electronic civil liberties, and is a former Commissioner of the FCC to boot. He's skeptical that ITAR/EAR enforcement will affect U.S. hackers participating in libre software development. More than that I can't/shouldn't say, since he was writing off-the-cuff in a personal email rather than carefully drafting remarks for public consumption. He rather likes writing short essays on law. If there's interest, I'll try and talk him into writing something layman-friendly about ITAR/EAR, cryptography, and the First Amendment. Great interest here. -- Bob Holtzman Giant intergalactic brain-sucking hyperbacteria came to Earth to rape our women and create a race of mindless zombies. Look! It's working! signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Update on USG, Software, and the First Amendment
I'll add my +1 to the request On Oct 28, 2014 12:08 AM, Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 02:20:36PM -0400, Robert J. Hansen wrote: Just received word back from a friend of mine who's a law professor focusing in electronic civil liberties, and is a former Commissioner of the FCC to boot. He's skeptical that ITAR/EAR enforcement will affect U.S. hackers participating in libre software development. More than that I can't/shouldn't say, since he was writing off-the-cuff in a personal email rather than carefully drafting remarks for public consumption. He rather likes writing short essays on law. If there's interest, I'll try and talk him into writing something layman-friendly about ITAR/EAR, cryptography, and the First Amendment. Great interest here. -- Bob Holtzman Giant intergalactic brain-sucking hyperbacteria came to Earth to rape our women and create a race of mindless zombies. Look! It's working! ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Update on USG, Software, and the First Amendment
Am 27.10.2014 um 19:20 schrieb Robert J. Hansen: Just received word back from a friend of mine who's a law professor focusing in electronic civil liberties, and is a former Commissioner of the FCC to boot. He's skeptical that ITAR/EAR enforcement will affect U.S. hackers participating in libre software development. More than that I can't/shouldn't say, since he was writing off-the-cuff in a personal email rather than carefully drafting remarks for public consumption. He rather likes writing short essays on law. If there's interest, I'll try and talk him into writing something layman-friendly about ITAR/EAR, cryptography, and the First Amendment. I actually would be interested in how he would argue if he was the government and would want to prosecute hackers for that. Or both. Just like the old saying: 2 lawyers, 3 opinions. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Update on USG, Software, and the First Amendment
Just received word back from a friend of mine who's a law professor focusing in electronic civil liberties, and is a former Commissioner of the FCC to boot. He's skeptical that ITAR/EAR enforcement will affect U.S. hackers participating in libre software development. More than that I can't/shouldn't say, since he was writing off-the-cuff in a personal email rather than carefully drafting remarks for public consumption. He rather likes writing short essays on law. If there's interest, I'll try and talk him into writing something layman-friendly about ITAR/EAR, cryptography, and the First Amendment. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Update on USG, Software, and the First Amendment
On 10/27/2014 02:20 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: If there's interest, I'll try and talk him into writing something layman-friendly about ITAR/EAR, cryptography, and the First Amendment. Robert, Since you seem to be requesting it explicitly, I'll share that I'm interested personally. thank you, ~c signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Update on USG, Software, and the First Amendment
Since you seem to be requesting it explicitly, I'll share that I'm interested personally. I just don't want to ask my friend to put together something on the subject and then discover there's no interest in it -- it seems disrespectful to Professor Johnson. :) ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Update on USG, Software, and the First Amendment
He rather likes writing short essays on law. If there's interest, I'll try and talk him into writing something layman-friendly about ITAR/EAR I would be interested. Thanks, Terry From: Robert J. Hansen r...@sixdemonbag.org To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org gnupg-users@gnupg.org Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 11:20 AM Subject: Update on USG, Software, and the First Amendment Just received word back from a friend of mine who's a law professor focusing in electronic civil liberties, and is a former Commissioner of the FCC to boot. He's skeptical that ITAR/EAR enforcement will affect U.S. hackers participating in libre software development. More than that I can't/shouldn't say, since he was writing off-the-cuff in a personal email rather than carefully drafting remarks for public consumption. He rather likes writing short essays on law. If there's interest, I'll try and talk him into writing something layman-friendly about ITAR/EAR, cryptography, and the First Amendment. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Update on USG, Software, and the First Amendment
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 03:51:04PM -0400, Robert J. Hansen wrote: I just don't want to ask my friend to put together something on the subject and then discover there's no interest in it -- it seems disrespectful to Professor Johnson. :) I think there will be great interest on the list for it. I am also very interested. Maybe it's time for me to refresh my RSA export-a-crypto-system sig? -- . o . o . o . . o o . . . o . . . o . o o o . o . o o . . o o o o . o . . o o o o . o o o pgp2HsClF_QzW.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Update on USG, Software, and the First Amendment
On 27/10/14 20:51, Robert J. Hansen wrote: Since you seem to be requesting it explicitly, I'll share that I'm interested personally. I just don't want to ask my friend to put together something on the subject and then discover there's no interest in it -- it seems disrespectful to Professor Johnson. :) It would be very interesting to read and I add my name to the request. (I remember well the late 80's when it was a major task getting agreement to permit the relocation of a micro-VAX from an office in UK to another office, same company, in France.) Philip ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
