Timothy C. May writes:
At 4:43 PM 10/26/95, Jeff Weinstein wrote:
If the CJR for the t-shirt is ultimately granted, what useful information will be derived,
Bar coded source code will be declared to be exportable under the ITAR. This will be the first time machine readable crypto code is declared exportable.
If the CJR for the t-shirt is ultimately denied, ditto?
It will not only prove embarassing because the situation is so silly, and produce vast amounts of added P.R., but may very well prove to be an ideal test case -- the speech in question is so political, and the demonstrable harm to the national security so non-existant, that the court case would be of value. Of course, Tim won't be seeing this posting (as he has declared me to be on his kill list) so he'll keep claiming the exercise is useless, but I think its extremely valuable. Go for it! Don't let the grumpy folk tell you this is a "joke". Its no more funny than the entire export control regime. Perry