[ObNote: the cypherpunks list is not at toad.com] John Young <jya@pipeline.com> information terrorist writes:
TH points out that there's a broad new provision in the BXA Wassenaar rule for controlling telecommunications software under Category 5, Part I - Telecommunications, quote:
You might want to highlight the following section ... not sure of the entire context ... but this isn't something that I'd seen before. It looks like control of any software that can transmit data.
c.3. ``Software'' which provides the capability of recovering ``source code'' of telecommunications ``software'' controlled by 5A001, 5B001, or 5C001;
Export ban on decompilers? Disassemblers? Debuggers? These tools are general purpose, so this seems particularly weird. Adam