Sovereignty issues and Palladium/TCPA

[David Howe]

at Friday, January 31, 2003 2:18 AM, Peter Gutmann
<pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz> was seen to say:
<schnipp>
>   More particularly, governments are likely to want to explore the
> issues related to potential foreign control/influence over domestic
> governmental use/access to domestic government held data.
>   In other words, what are the practical and policy implications for a
> government if a party external to the government may have the
> potential power to turn off our access to its own information and
> that of its citizens.
And indeed - download patches silently to change the "disable"
functionality to "email anything interesting directly to the CIA"
functionality.....


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