Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote: | Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org> writes: | > They're listed on NASDAQ (CKP). This makes them an American | > company for purposes of export controls. (This from an employee of | > Checkpoint who I asked that exact question.) | | This is truly bizarre. First, if they were on the NASDAQ, they'd have a | 4-letter ticker symbol, not a 3-letter symbol. MSFT (Microsoft) is on NASDAQ. | IBM (IBM) and F (Ford) are on the New York stock exchange and/or | American stock exchange. Oops. Misread my stock service. I usually pay little attention to what exchange something is traded on. CKP is on the NYSE. | Sometimes the stock of a foreign company is traded in the U.S. in the form | of American Depository Receipts (ADRs) not sponsored by the company. How | could that impose any obligation on it? "He asks, as if the ITARs were logical." Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume