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RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Friday 16 February 1996 Volume 17 : Issue 75 ...
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 96 14:04:39 EST From: denning@cs.cosc.georgetown.edu (Dorothy Denning) Subject: ITAR Amended to Allow Personal Use Exemption Today's Federal Register contains a notice from the Department of State, Bureau of Political Military Affairs, announcing final rule of an amendment to the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR) allowing U.S. persons to temporarily export cryptographic products for personal use without the need for an export license. The product must not be intended for copying, demonstration, marketing, sale, re-export, or transfer of ownership or control. It must remain in the possession of the exporting person, which includes being locked in a hotel room or safe. While in transit, it must be with the person's accompanying baggage. Exports to certain countries are prohibited -- currently Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. The exporter must maintain records of each temporary export for five years. See Federal Register, Vol. 61, No. 33, Friday, February 16, 1996, Public Notice 2294, pp. 6111-6113. Dorothy Denning [This will probably become known as the Matt Blaze exemption. See Matt's ``My life as an international arms courier" in RISKS-16.73, 6 January 1995. PGN] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 13:18:02 -0500 (EST) From: Educom <educom@elanor.oit.unc.edu> Subject: Spreading the Word (Edupage, 15 February 1996) *The Washington Post* has reported that a Maryland family received a number of threatening calls after a University of Maryland student used the Internet to circulate a hearsay allegation that a daughter in the family was being mistreated by her mother. Posting his message on Internet newsgroups concerned with child welfare, psychology, left-wing politics, and civil liberties, the student urged people to call the mother "at home and tell her you are disgusted and you demand that she stops." The student claims: "You should be able to write what you want on the Internet, whether it's true or not." (*Houston Chronicle*, 14 Feb 1996, 2A) ------------------------------ _______________________ Regards, "Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves." -Gene Fowler Joseph Reagle http://farnsworth.mit.edu/~reagle/home.html reagle@mit.edu 0C 69 D4 E8 F2 70 24 33 B4 5E 5E EC 35 E6 FB 88