It depends if they're willing to add a clause guaranteeing legal fees. (And have the appropriate size to do so in a convincing way.) With legal fees spoken for, many Americans do work overseas. Its all a matter of the US government not wanting to take on a well funded legal team to try and claim that Americans can't speak to furriners. They much prefer mild mannered nuclear activists with a large mortgage and a family to feed. They're easier to beat up. Adam C Matthew Curtin wrote: | Does anyone have any idea how extensive the legal entaglements might | be for a US Citizen to accept work overseas developing crypto software | for a foreign company? | | Someone at a company in Australia is interested in hiring some | crypto-clued folks, and has asked me if it's even worth pursuing | any US citizens. -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume