At 09:18 PM 9/20/95 +0200, you wrote:

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Browser in the US, text in US, crypto gif imported from UK, both legal.

Browser outside US, text in US, crypto gif imported from UK, both legal.

See a flaw in that?

Not directly, but... what if for some strange reason the image is routed through US gateways on its way from the UK to, for example, Germany? I mean, The Net (tm) is a strange beast, and you can rarely tell which way the message flows... you can't even DO anything about it.

It can get pretty weird. A friend did a traceroute on a site across town. It was relayed half-way across the world to get there. (Through Poland or some such absurdity.) It seems that no matter what you do, you are breaking the law... | Minister of Forced Caffinization in the DNRC | alano@teleport.com | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmerman unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | | -- PGP 2.6.2 key available on request -- | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.teleport.com/~alano | <fnord> |