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Subject: Tax break for snoopable crypto; 5 percent Net tax plan
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well ! com>
Date: 1999-07-30 13:18:25
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A Tax Break for Snoopable Code
by Declan McCullagh
3:00 a.m. 30.Jul.99.PDT
WASHINGTON -- If anyone in Washington
qualifies as an ardent foe of encryption,
it's congressman Porter Goss (R-Florida).
Two years ago, the chairman of the
House Intelligence committee tried to
make it a crime to distribute
privacy-protecting software, such as PGP
or recent versions of Netscape Navigator
and Internet Explorer.
The plan failed, but Goss didn't give up.
On Wednesday, he and the panel's
ranking Democrat introduced a bill to
jump-start the US market for encryption
products with backdoors that would
support government surveillance.
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http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21007.html
Measure Pushes Federal Net Tax
by Declan McCullagh
3:00 a.m. 30.Jul.99.PDT
WASHINGTON -- Have you grown used to
Amazon.com's no-sales-tax book orders?
Are you a fan of the cheap price tags at
cdnow.com?
Get ready for sticker shock.
Anyone who orders merchandise online
will have to pay a new 5 percent federal
tax if a bill introduced in Congress this
week becomes law.
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