On Thu, 23 Nov 1995, sameer wrote: a> The feds have never established a general policy. a> in other words, business as usual with the Feds. If there is no "book" on what is or is not legal v/v ITAR, and the agency responsible will not communicate, it empirically says: "...well, be reasonable to meet the intent of the law, but we will not tell you what is really expected; however, if, in the futute, we decide what we really want, we will bust you if you did not fully comply despite your good intentions --and, if that does not fly, we'll charge you with conspiracy...." having been down the road a couple times including being charged with technology export for things which are essentially combinations of common knowledge, if nothing else works for the Feds, conspiracy will --and it carries the same penalties as the "crime" itself. No small wonder the Europeans, including the British, laugh at our "legal" system. a> > if a solid (or reasonably accurate given the feds refusal a> > to put anything in writing) FAQ can be assembled, it would be worth a> > posting as a resource. a> > a> > I had thought the feds were requiring that you at least verify the a> > address of the party requesting the code --at least as far as screening a> > out the obvious ones like .uk or .de and the like --which is far from a> > foolproof. There has been mention someplace that they also expect some a> > screening by verifying numbers, not just names. a> > a> > I guess the real question, just how much checking do they expect? a> > checking for country domains is easy enough, and the 'foolers' in a> > .edu group can be listed, but there are plenty of other deceptions a> > if you control the machine since communication inevitably works by a> > the numbers which is a whole new ball of wax. a> > a> > On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, sameer wrote: a> > a> > > #!/bin/sh a> > > umask 022 a> > > DIRNAME=`cat $HOME/.usonlydir` a> > > NEWDIRNAME=`/usr/local/bin/pseudo-random | /usr/local/bin/md5sum` a> > > cd /u1/ftp/pub/US-only a> > > mv I_will_not_export_$DIRNAME I_will_not_export_$NEWDIRNAME a> > > cd .. a> > > sed -e "s/$DIRNAME/$NEWDIRNAME/" < README.US-only > README.new a> > > mv README.new README.US-only a> > > echo $NEWDIRNAME > $HOME/.usonlydir a> >