[13014] in Cypherpunks
Re: The ITARs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ice-Fox (aka Robert Sturtz))
Wed May 4 11:25:06 1994
Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 01:12:28 +1000 (GMT+1000)
From: "Ice-Fox (aka Robert Sturtz)" <rsturt@wilbur.mbark.swin.oz.au>
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us>
Cc: perry@imsi.com, Jim_Miller@bilbo.suite.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199405041429.KAA00574@orchard.medford.ma.us>
On Wed, 4 May 1994, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> This is sick. According to this, I cannot teach foreigners about
> cryptography in the U.S. -- even about the open literature. This is a
> grotesque denial of my first amendment rights.
does that also mean that an american cannot use his/her knowledge overseas?
(btw im australian and therefore know nothing about american law)
>
> When this issue came up in a discussion on export control issues with
> my employer's export control guru, he said that they basically never
> bothered to enforce this in the case of open courses at colleges &
> universities (because they knew it was unenforceable and
> unconstitutional).
>
good for him
> - Bill
Yours in SYNC. Robert Sturtz
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