17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Timothy C. May wrote: | On a related topic, my hunch is that it is much more likely for a | prosecution to involve a major software company skirting the ITAR/EAR rules | by subcontracting with offshore companies (e.g., RSADSI using the NEC | chips, or Cylink using Israeli programmers) than it is that some lowly Net | person will be proscuted for dribbling out a few hundred lines of some | crypto program. I doubt it. People are often much more resource poor than companies. A company with the prospect of a few million in sales can defend itself in court much better than some individual. The ITARs survive on FUD, not strong legal basis. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume