Some laws are stupid.
It turns out that at the end of January, MSN was still out-lawed in France, because the declaration has not been approved yet by the CNIL, the French Commission for Computing and Liberty. The move could be interpreted as the first politically correct decision in the French on-line world. It turns out that the groups banned are subject to be illegal under French law. The San Jose Mercury News also reported about the case. New heads for French Crypto Policy France, the most restrictive country for encryption use, has disolved an important government agency which has been widely critisized by Big Industry circles.