> > > This UK legislation will have impact elsewhere. Too many wind mills, too little time ;-) - The world has excess ignorant "Regulate Crypto" politicians & & civil servants paid to push laws. - National cryptography vendors, systems houses, banks etc may have more commercial interest to fund lobbying against local ignorant politicians. - International source groups have few people per country, None paid to waste time begging to educate ignorant politicians within their deadlines & foreign procedures. - Only laws that may motivate most global source developers will be those of countries of passport, residence, mail list server & source repository. Leaving 190 countries each will ignore.
Inefficient to try to explain tech. to politicians ? Quicker to tell them: They will cripple & expose their country: International groups will ignore their laws, & continue development. Only their country's nationals will be crippled, out competed by rest of world's industries, banks, even industrial spies, international crackers, terrorists on net, & local criminals will All have better encryption than their local law restricted citizens. Even the USA failed to enforce Clipper or restrict international encryption: Dept of Commerce chased a crypt cat out of the bag for a decade, & failed. (USA munitions law, Crypt.c, freebsd.org, South African source repository.) Best spend time protecting source projects, - Insufficient resources to fight a globe of ignorant politicians, so best structure projects so no few countries can cripple development. - eg mirrors in several countries & regions, with backups, so if server master has legal or net trouble, or a regional geographic incident, people can switch to another server in another country & region. - Individuals could also quietly offer logins to developers in other countries (so if one day a developers' country implements a law restricting export of code, next edit is done via ssh & vi in your country not theirs, so no file ever needs to be exported (aka USA munitions law). Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix Sys Eng Consultant Munich http://berklix.eu/jhs/ Mail plain text, No quoted-printable, HTML, base64, MS.doc. Prefix old lines '> ' Reply below old, like play script. Break lines by 80. Brexit: Meeting +UK blocks votes of Brits in EU http://www.berklix.eu/brexit/ _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
