New Software Controls
TH points out that there's a broad new provision in the BXA Wassenaar rule for controlling telecommunications software under Category 5, Part I - Telecommunications, quote: You might want to highlight the following section ... not sure of the entire context ... but this isn't something that I'd seen before. It looks like control of any software that can transmit data. c.3. ``Software'' which provides the capability of recovering ``source code'' of telecommunications ``software'' controlled by 5A001, 5B001, or 5C001; For the citation see: http://jya.com/bxa-wa/cat51.htm#5D001c3 --------- We've broken the rule into several components for easier access to the Commerce Control List revisions. See: http://jya.com/bxa-wa-rule.htm
[ObNote: the cypherpunks list is not at toad.com] John Young <jya@pipeline.com> information terrorist writes:
TH points out that there's a broad new provision in the BXA Wassenaar rule for controlling telecommunications software under Category 5, Part I - Telecommunications, quote:
You might want to highlight the following section ... not sure of the entire context ... but this isn't something that I'd seen before. It looks like control of any software that can transmit data.
c.3. ``Software'' which provides the capability of recovering ``source code'' of telecommunications ``software'' controlled by 5A001, 5B001, or 5C001;
Export ban on decompilers? Disassemblers? Debuggers? These tools are general purpose, so this seems particularly weird. Adam
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You might want to highlight the following section ... not sure of the entire context ... but this isn't something that I'd seen before. It looks like control of any software that can transmit data.
c.3. ``Software'' which provides the capability of recovering ``source code'' of telecommunications ``software'' controlled by 5A001, 5B001, or 5C001; Export ban on decompilers? Disassemblers? Debuggers? These tools are general purpose, so this seems particularly weird.
It's only weird if you assume the authors have a clue... Depending on the overall context, telco software companies and their customers may find this section interesting as well. If they were thinking at all when they wrote this, they were probable concerned about products that let people ship exportable binaries and patchtools that let users recover the source code to undo the limitations. But as you say, general purpose tools work fine. The special purpose tools I've seen have been the ones that patch the binaries of Netscape 40-bit versions to reenable 128-bit capability, and they just use binary. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639
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