[66528] in Cypherpunks
Re: Taking crypto out of the U.S.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Thu Sep 26 01:15:08 1996
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 96 23:30:04 EDT
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.94.960925220250.2802J-100000@polaris>
Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li> writes:
> On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
>
> > > >> Soon I am going to be going overseas to Japan, and I want to take
> > > >> my notebook with me so I can keep up with everything, however, I have
> > > >> encrypted my hard drive and usually encrypt my mail. Is this in
> > > >> violation of the ITAR to keep everything the same when I go over?
> >
> > Gentlemen, us customs does not give shit about what you take out
> > on your diskettes.
> >
> > When I went to Russia recenty, I took PGP for DOS, and no one gave
> > me any problem.
> >
> > IANAL
>
> Obviously not, you've just confessed to a felony.
And I've just forwarded Igor's confession to the Right Reverend
Colin James III.
Looks like we've got our ITAR test case. :-)
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