Michael Shields quoted and wrote:
Anonymous <nobody@REPLAY.COM> wrote:
-- then through the same Vienna, Virginia (USA) site ...
...a major router at a major interconnect run by UUNET, a major provider. datasrv appaently contracted with UUNET for traffic. Naturally it would go through their network, which is centered in the US.
So, if this person was sending cryptographics codes from Switzerland to Israel, the code would have been imported to the US, then exported by UUNET. They can't do that, can they? Probably nobody would prosecute, but it might be something to threaten UUNET with if one of their Northern Virginia neighbors ever wanted something the couldn't get otherwise. thad -- Thaddeus Beier email: thad@hammerhead.com Technology Development vox: 408) 286-3376 Hammerhead Productions fax: 408) 292-2244
Thaddeus J. Beier writes:
So, if this person was sending cryptographics codes from Switzerland to Israel, the code would have been imported to the US, then exported by UUNET. They can't do that, can they? Probably nobody would prosecute, but it might be something to threaten UUNET with if one of their Northern Virginia neighbors ever wanted something the couldn't get otherwise.
It isn't clear that telecoms treaties don't implicitly make this legal in spite of the export regulations. Perry
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