[43395] in Cypherpunks
Re: NSA, ITAR, NCSA and plug-in hooks.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim bell)
Tue Nov 14 18:47:46 1995
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 15:58:40 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: jimbell@pacifier.com (jim bell)
Scott Brickner <sjb@universe.digex.net> writes:
>Jeff Barber writes:
>>Does anyone know the ostensible justification for this? What section of
>>the ITARs do they point to when they say "this is illegal"? I've perused
>>an online copy of ITAR (no, I haven't read all of it -- I have other
>>things I want to do this year :-), but I can't find a section that could
>>be construed to support this contention.
>
>I think it's 121.1, Category XIII paragraph (b) item (5):
>"Ancillary equipment specifically designed or modified for paragraphs (b)
>(1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) of this category;"
Question: What makes computers in general NOT describable by such a
paragraph?!?
