-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <199611091610.LAA00420@pdj2-ra.F-REMOTE.CWRU.Edu>, Peter D. Junger <junger@pdj2-ra.F-REMOTE.CWRU.Edu> wrote:
As far as I know, the only person convicted of shipping cryptographic devices outside the U.S. without a license was guilty of shipping a satellite TV descrambler to Latin America. So there is some sort of precedent. (And, of course, no First Amendment problem.)
I had heard of this before, but it's odd, because the ITAR says that among items _excluded_ from the munitions list are items: 121.1 Category XIII(b)(1)(viii): Limited to receiving for radio broadcast, pay television or similar restricted audience television of the consumer type, without digital encryption and where digital decryption is limited to the video, audio or management functions. so it would seem a sattelite TV descrambler is not a munition. - Ian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMoen3kZRiTErSPb1AQFpywQAic/fkZZQIFItzyt0tnKYtV5/CGXpABJl ncRnl4ydG5LWyudrB9tb5fFhIqUtpp2I1MRoFgXWibEk2OwGXua7T91rSyw/AeG0 Reh+x0IJGYu4DdHBmrMwRTbAR5QgsC9Yai9j/cIsXXDBviXSKMBn8S5jTK0BvTKg RwEamFu7QL4= =JlNu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----