[67391] in Cypherpunks
Re: Fw: Re: ITAR satellite provision
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (The Deviant)
Sat Oct 5 06:14:50 1996
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 05:43:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: The Deviant <deviant@pooh-corner.com>
To: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <3.0b28.32.19961004164704.006bc324@ricochet.net>
On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Greg Broiles wrote:
> At 08:09 PM 10/4/96 +0000, The Deviant wrote:
>
> >So.. if I were to take PGP, put it on a floppy disk, tape it to a model
> >rocket, and launch it across the mexican border, that's not exporting it
> >(although the FAA might complain)?
>
> As I read the regs, it's not an export at the moment it's launched, but
> it's almost certainly an export when it reaches Mexican airspace or when it
> touches Mexican soil.
>
Well now, I didn't send it accross the border. I sent it up. wind sent
it accross the border.
>
> The "rocket exception" is not useful vis-a-vis crypto. Period. I'm very
> sorry I ever had anything to do with this thread and I'm not posting about
> it again.
>
--Deviant
Live long and prosper.
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