[42963] in Cypherpunks
Re: lp ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Mon Nov 6 11:45:09 1995
To: thad@hammerhead.com (Thaddeus J. Beier)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Nov 1995 07:39:04 PST."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 11:05:44 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Thaddeus J. Beier writes:
> So, if this person was sending cryptographics codes from Switzerland
> to Israel, the code would have been imported to the US, then exported
> by UUNET. They can't do that, can they? Probably nobody would prosecute,
> but it might be something to threaten UUNET with if one of their Northern
> Virginia neighbors ever wanted something the couldn't get otherwise.
It isn't clear that telecoms treaties don't implicitly make this legal
in spite of the export regulations.
Perry
