[14118] in Cypherpunks
Re: MIT has released PGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed May 25 07:54:35 1994
To: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Cc: CYPHERPUNKS@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 May 1994 05:43:39 EDT."
<199405250943.AA20817@panix.com>
Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 07:51:27 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Duncan Frissell says:
> R.>the following questions:
>
> R.>Are you a citizen or national of the United States or a person who
> R.>has been lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United
> R.>States under the Immigration and Naturalization Act?
>
> Wait a goddamned minute. Since when does the ITAR prevent illegal aliens
> (who are resident in the US) from obtaining munitions?
It does. It appears that under the ITAR, giving technical information
on munitions to an alien in the U.S. is equivalent to export. I know
its insane. Its an obvious violation of the first amendment. It is
none the less in the regulations.
Perry
