[Chapter-delegates] Vanity fair on cyber, ITU, Vint Cerf and Jeff Moss

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

On 30/03/2012 16:10, Marcin Cieslak wrote :
>   So in 1997, President Bill Clinton relaxed export controls on
>   encryption. This had the unintended effect of giving criminals new
>   ways to steal intellectual property: now they could easily encrypt
>   what they took and send it out of the country, to Russia, China, or
>   elsewhere. Those criminals pioneered the systematic exfiltration of
>   intellectual property that plagues American business today.
>
> Quite an interesting passage, I would say!

The world did not wait for 1997 to use PGP... or ROT13 for that matter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT13  and  http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rot-13

Kind regards,
Olivier

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Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
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