17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Marshall Clow writes:
"(2) to distribute computer software that encodes or encrypts electronic or digital communications to computer networks that the person distributing knows, or reasonably should know, is accessible t
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foreign nationals and foreign governments, regardless of whether such software has been designated nonexportable."
IANAL, but it seems to me that if I EMAIL a copy of PGP to, say, Tim May, that I have just "distributed computer software .... to a computer network ...accessible to foreign nationals ..." even though it was "private" e-mail.
Depends on how "computer network" is defined in the statute. Perry