lucrezi@univaq.sublink.org (Gino Lucrezi) (05/30/91)
I think that a *really* good argument you can show to Sen. Biden and other backers of tha bill is concerned with american trade intrests all around the world. At present, there are still next-to-none laws concerning information exchange across national boundaries, but when some will come, a key provision will be reciprocity - if your law doesn't give the same protection as ours, then *no* information can be passed from here to there. Just imagine how happy multi- national corporations would be, with their data flow stopped... In fact, the EC is contemplating such clauses in future recommendations to member states. So, networks *intrinsically insecure by law* may mean that some kind of info couldn't be exported to the US! Not to mention the added convenience for anyone spying on american trade secrets transferred on what should have been a secure network, but can't be so by law! -- Gino Lucrezi @ Universita` "V. Rivera" - L'Aquila - Italy SUBLINK: lucrezi@ingeaq.sublink.org FIDO: 2:335/408.1 2:335/307.4