From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@snark.imsi.com> Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Precedence: bulk Status: R _______ MESSAGE BEGINS ___________ Jim Miller says:
Section #120.9 of the ITAR defines "Defense Service" as:
(1) The furnishing of assistance (including training) to foreign persons, whether in the United States or abroad in the design, development, engineering, manufacture, production, assembly, testing, repair, maintenance, modification, operation, demilitarization, destruction, processing, or use of defense articles; or (2) The furnishing to foreign persons of any technical data controlled under this subchapter (see #120.10), whether in the United States or abroad.
This is sick. According to this, I cannot teach foreigners about cryptography in the U.S. -- even about the open literature. This is a grotesque denial of my first amendment rights. I wonder if I should hold an open enrollment cryptography class for the sake of civil disobediance. Perry ______ MESSAGE ENDS _________________________________________ That's interesting..... My cryptology lecturer seems to have an American Mid-West accent (not Canadian - I can generally tell), and seems to be commiting the "heinous" crime of teaching such matters to mainly Australian people. He seems to be on conference somewhere overseas. Well, I hope he doesn't get arrested if he crosses any U.S. border posts. It would certainly piss me off. (For one thing, it would fuck up my syllabus :-[.) Seriously, I don't think it is an offense to teach cryptology to non-NAFTA nationals. All of the stuff is non-classified, and he seems pretty aware of the legal issue of cryptology. That is, he wouldn't do anything that he could be nabbed for (discounting any warped interprepation of the legal statutes...;-( .) ======================================================= | Peter Murphy. <pkm@maths.uq.oz.au>. Department of | | Mathematics - University of Queensland, Australia. | ------------------------------------------------------- | "What will you do? What will you do? When a hundred | | thousand Morriseys come rushing over the hill?" | | - Mr. Floppy. | =======================================================