Cryptography Export

I export cryptography source code almost every single day. Does the government have a problem with that? Fuck them in the ass! I can't believe that corporations pay legal experts huge sums of money to receive advice telling them to bend over and spread 'em for the government's bullshit legislation. I am not alone. My nephew regularly exports 'code' for Pig-Latin, as a parody of my efforts to spread the use of crypto. He says that they can take his Pig-Latin when they pry it from his cold, dead, baby fingers. Cable companies regularly export encryption code when they send out their signal-scrambling code to foreign recipients. Can you think of other examples? Can you think of hundreds of similar examples? Think about it. If the government wants to prosecute me for exporting encryption code, then they had best be prepared to prosecute _all_ exporters of every single item that involves altering data that can be re-converted on the other end to render the output intelligible. If you think that I am taking this matter lightly, then think again, because I have a legal opinion from an attorney who has been shoving the governments dick back in their own face for half a century, and he regards my potential defence as a cake-walk. I not only already have the paperwork set up to defy any potential restraining orders that may arise, but I have a judge that is fully prepared to institute the necessary proceedings to validate my right to do what hundreds or thousands of individuals and corporations are doing every single day. If the government thinks that they can legislate the thickness of condoms available for export, then they had best think again. And if they think that they can require exported condoms to have holes in them, then they are certainly living in fantasy land. I am a self-confessed madman, but I am a madman standing on legal precedents that are as solid as the Rock of Gibralter. (Think about it.) Potential Prudential Precedent <precedent@crackhouse.gov>

At 12:49 PM 4/8/97 -0000, a Potential Postal Worker wrote:
_Corporations_ have to. Unlike individuals or partnership businesses, a corporation is a legal fiction chartered by the government, and has to do what Big Daddy says or it'll be informed that it no longer exists. (The lawyers can point out that it's obviously more complicated than that, but that's the basic idea.) If they don't like it, they don't have to be a corporation.
Doesn't work that way. Unless you can make a very strong case that they're singling out _you_ because you're black/female/Republican/Jewish, it's extremely difficult to say "you can't prosecute me because you didn't prosecute _him_ first" - otherwise there'd be no way to prosecute the first person.
If you're not just trolling (:-), here's one piece of advice - please don't go in with a case that's too weak, whether it's because you're underfunded, have other problems affecting the overall case results, don't realize how much abuse you'll be taking, or look too much like a Waco for the average mundane jury, because every case the Good Guys lose sets bad precedents.
If the government thinks that they can legislate the thickness of condoms available for export,
The FDA already regulates testosterone and oxygen. Ain't gonna get mine until they.....
standing on legal precedents that are as solid as the Rock of Gibralter. (Think about it.)
GibraltAr ? It's full of caves, tunnels, and other holes..... # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp # (If this is a mailing list, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)
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