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From Ivory Tower to Iron Bars: Scientists Risk Jail Time for Violating Export Laws
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec Muffett)
Fri Sep 18 11:33:44 2009
From: Alec Muffett <alec.muffett@gmail.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:32:20 +0100
Perry: plasma physics is wildly OT but I believe the relevance will be =20=
obvious to those who remember the crypto wars, especially when they =20
hit the fifth paragraph:
> It=92s a difficult subject: many people I interviewed felt Roth showed =
=20
> blatant disregard for the law =97 he was warned his work fell under =20=
> the State Department=92s munitions list =97 but they expressed deep =20=
> frustration with the ambiguity of the laws.
>
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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/09/from-ivory-tower-to-iron-bars-acad=
emics-risk-jail-time-for-violating-export-laws/
short: http://is.gd/3pd0d
"There but for the grace of Bernstein?" Or something like that... :-)
-a
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