[67003] in Cypherpunks
Re: Export laws don't just affect crypto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim bell)
Tue Oct 1 20:41:03 1996
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 17:18:47 -0800
To: perry@piermont.com
From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 12:32 PM 10/1/96 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
>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...
If ITAR exempts exports by missile, does that mean that we merely have to
make a model rocket, put a floppy containing PGP in the payload compartment,
and shoot the thing over the wall into Mexico, or into Canada?
Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com
