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Re: Exporting crypto from the US? Think first...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Fri May 7 10:32:11 1999
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 00:13:15 -0700
To: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>, John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Cc: hugh@toad.com, cypherpunks@toad.com, gnu@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199905070239.TAA14222@toad.com>
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At 07:39 PM 5/6/99 -0700, John Gilmore wrote:
> Still, if the government decided you were worth coming
> after, they might appeal a lower court loss, and let the
> case stack up in appeal, waiting for Bernstein to be
> finally decided.
Large numbers of people have been conspicuously breaking this law for a
long time.
Who has been prosecuted?
They put Zimmerman in front of a grand jury forever and a day, but did not
want to let the case go to a real court.
If they took someone in front of a real court, and a real jury, they would
risk losing. Far better to maintain fear, uncertainty, and doubt for as
long as possible.
> The upshot is that posting crypto source code, even from
> the 9th Circuit of the United States, still involves
> significant risk. The risk is lower than it was yesterday,
> but it's still there.
Innumerable people have exported code.
Who is doing time?
--digsig
James A. Donald
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