[119166] in Cypherpunks
aliens
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Mon Oct 18 18:15:35 1999
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 23:56:50 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <199910182156.XAA28904@sofuku.monster.org>
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
At 02:34 PM 10/18/99 -0400, Dan Richter wrote:
>My friend is a resident alien (living in the United States). Is it legal
>under U.S. law for her to download and use PGPi?
>
>Thanks.
If she hasn't a green card, and you've discussed PGP with her,
*you* are guilty of unlicenced export of controlled technology.
I hope you haven't large, seizable assets. :-)
PGPi uses algorithms patented in the US, so she'd be
violating a commercial patent using it here. Oooh, scary.
Basically, don't worry about any of this; Osama has his copy (and he
checked its signature), as does everyone else who's interested and has more
intelligence than a congressvermin.
BTW, you should not be looking to us for legal advice, really.
In fact, I doubt you could rely on decent pointers (www.bxa.gov) to the
ever-changing laws for reliable info. That's part of the
Plan: fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Impedes deployment; makes spook lives
easier.
Kudos for turning another person on to the Tool.
