[14344] in Cypherpunks
Re: v2.6 for the rest of us
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eli Brandt)
Sat May 28 01:33:30 1994
To: cypherpunks list <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Date: Fri, 27 May 94 22:28:17 PDT
From: Eli Brandt <ebrandt@jarthur.cs.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9405280405.AA25445@ah.com>; from "Eric Hughes" at May 27, 94 9:05 pm
Eric said:
> So, if the USA could manage to extradite a
> 2.6-user from Europe, that person could be tried under USA law,
> convicted, and jailed.
Convicted of what? The ITAR provides civil and criminal penalties
for exporting defense articles or technical information, for
providing defense services, etc. AFAIK (anybody OCRed it?), it
contains no clause that would cover the use of software or
rocket launchers that have already been exported.
Eli ebrandt@hmc.edu
