17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
IANAL, but it seems to me that if I EMAIL a copy of PGP to, say, Tim May, that I have just "distributed computer software .... to a computer network ...accessible to foreign nationals ..." even though it was "private" e-mail.
It seems to me that this bill is so broad as to be unworkable, and that could work in our favor. I haven't read the full text, and I'm not a lawyer, but my reading of the excerpts posted here suggest that even stuff that's been *approved* for export by NSA could be prohibited. What would be the status of stuff like NIS+ under this bill? The Netscape commerce server?