[108038] in Cypherpunks
RE: Re: you don't have to ask, but you'll be sorry you didn't
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edwin E. Smith)
Tue Feb 2 09:45:21 1999
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 08:41:19 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: "Edwin E. Smith" <edsmith@IntNet.net>
In-Reply-To: <896C7C3540C3D111AB9F00805FA78CE20313FC0D@MSX11002>
Reply-To: "Edwin E. Smith" <edsmith@IntNet.net>
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Hi:
Just thought I would add my 2 cent's worth.
I think you all are assume that you have some idea of what passes for
logic in a bureaucrat's mind. I work at a bank and our motto is: "
It's not logical, it's just our policy."
Edwin
At 04:27 AM 2/2/99 -0600, you wrote:
>I think that depends on which jurisdiction you are "exporting" it
from. They
>have different rules. UK government has recently poublished a White
Paper on
>arms export control ( http://www.dti.gov.uk/export.control/stratex/
) which
>explicitly defines web pages & email across national boundaries as
export.
>It isn't law yet & to this non-lawyer implies that they wouldn't
have done
>it if it had been law already - so my guess is that in Britain at
least what
>you describe isn't yet "export". Of course the US may have
different
>rules. But has it ever been tested in court?
>
>> Michael Motyka[SMTP:mmotyka@lsil.com] wrote:
>>
>> Am I right in assuming that an applet that performs non-exportable
>> encryption is considered to have been exported when the page is
accessed
>> by someone offshore?
>
>
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