Jim Conrad wrote >

From jjc@infi.net Wed Mar 12 00:21:16 1997 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 00:20:36 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <2.2.16.19970312001929.4db72c86@mailhost.norfolk.infi.net> X-Sender: jjc@mailhost.norfolk.infi.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: die@die.com, ttyler@mich.com, troach@netcom.com, lrkn@zeus.anet-dfw.com, crisp@netcom.com, victor@best.com, "Michael F. Peyton" <Michael.Peyton@MCI.com>, dwilson@paprika.mwc.edu, stever@infi.net, rbritt@visi.net, larry51@aol.com, jmccolman@infi.net, brueger@infi.net, lburke@infi.net, donjr@infi.net, acolejr@erols.com From: Jim Conrad <jjc@infi.net> Subject: U.S. State Department crackdown

Thought you'all might find this interesting ...

Return-Path: jmatk@tscm.com X-Sender: jmatk@tiac.net Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:26:56 -0500 To: jmatk@tscm.com From: jmatk@tscm.com (James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng) Subject: U.S. State Department crackdown

The U.S. State Department is starting to crackdown on the illegal export of TSCM and SIGINT equipment under ITAR.

Noice how section (b) is worded:

"...equipment designed or modified to counteract electronic surveillance or monitoring."

-jma

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE - Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs 22 CFR Parts 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, and 130

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Category XI-Military [and Space] Electronics

(a) Electronic equipment not included in Category XII of the U.S. Munitions List which is specifically designed, modified or configured for military application. This equipment includes but is not limited to:

*(b) Electronic systems or equipment specifically designed, modified, or configured for intelligence, security, or military purposes for use in search, reconnaissance, collection, monitoring, direction-finding, display, analysis and production of information from the electromagnetic spectrum and electronic systems or equipment designed or modified to counteract electronic surveillance or monitoring. A system meeting this definition is controlled under this subchapter even in instances where any individual pieces of equipment constituting the system may be subject to the controls of another U.S. Government agency. Such systems or equipment described above include, but are not limited to, those:

(1) Designed or modified to use cryptographic techniques to generate the spreading code for spread spectrum or hopping code for frequency agility. This does not include fixed code techniques for spread spectrum.

(2) Designed or modified using burst techniques (e.g., time compression techniques) for intelligence, security or military purposes.

(3) Designed or modified for the purpose of information security to suppress the compromising emanations of information-bearing signals. This covers TEMPEST suppression technology and equipment meeting or designed to meet government TEMPEST standards. This definition is not intended to include equipment designed to meet Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commercial electro-magnetic interference standards or equipment designed for health and safety.

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