[93350] in Cypherpunks
Re: New Software Controls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Back)
Sat Jan 17 14:18:30 1998
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 10:25:50 GMT
From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
To: jya@pipeline.com
CC: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-reply-to: <1.5.4.32.19980117020259.00733f54@pop.pipeline.com> (message from
John Young on Fri, 16 Jan 1998 21:02:59 -0500)
Reply-To: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
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John Young <jya@pipeline.com> information terrorist writes:
> TH points out that there's a broad new provision in the
> BXA Wassenaar rule for controlling telecommunications
> software under Category 5, Part I - Telecommunications,
> quote:
>
> You might want to highlight the following section ... not sure of the
> entire context ... but this isn't something that I'd seen before. It looks
> like control of any software that can transmit data.
>
> c.3. ``Software'' which provides the capability of recovering
> ``source code'' of telecommunications ``software'' controlled by
> 5A001, 5B001, or 5C001;
Export ban on decompilers? Disassemblers? Debuggers?
These tools are general purpose, so this seems particularly weird.
Adam
