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Re: Export laws don't just affect crypto

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue Oct 1 12:57:30 1996

To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Oct 1996 08:41:14 PDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 12:32:02 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>


Lucky Green writes:
> > 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.

Well, not quite -- it exempts exports by space launch, but I think
thats intended for things like satelite launchings and not for things
like missile attacks against other countries...

.pm

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