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Re: Export laws don't just affect crypto

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Tue Oct 1 12:08:42 1996

Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 08:41:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: Roger Williams <roger@coelacanth.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9610011330.AA1519@sturgeon.coelacanth.com>




On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Roger Williams wrote:

> >>>>> Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> writes:
> 
>   > "Higher altitude and velocities up to 25,000 nautical
>   > miles-per-hour options are available in the U.S."
> 
>   > I gather from this that as long as you are in the US, you are
>   > welcome to use this technology for applications that require
>   > larger than 1,000 nmph speeds.
> 
> Umm, so are you violating ITAR if you *use* these GPS-guided missiles

No you aren't. A little known provision in the ITAR excempts exports 
by missile. Seriously.

--Lucky

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