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By Tom Espiner

Published: Friday 04 January 2008


Name

Joe Whitehead


Location

USA


Occupation

PC Tech


Comment

"Clayton added specific programs, such as penetration testing tools, were designed with the express purpose of hacking into systems and that the distribution of such tools would be limited by UK law."
So it worked so well in preventing PGP from becoming worldwide, here in the US. Now we have strong encryption everywhere, yet there were laws saying in effect that only US citizens could have US encryption, as if we're the only ones with a compiler or computer science degree!



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