17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
At 09:41 PM 11/22/96 -0800, Declan McCullagh wrote:
PS: Over margaritas and enchiladas tonight, I was talking with one of the crypto-ITAR enforcers from State. I mentioned that I'd be going out of the country soon and taking my PowerBook laptop. Quite sincerely, he urged me to keep a record of when I left and when I returned for five years. You see, I have domestic Netscape Navigator on it. Wacky stuff.
Comments like that by Feds are meaningless absent the busts of a few "laptop smugglers." If they have never busted anyone, it's a dead letter (all the more so since they legalized casual carry with record keeping). DCF