PGP Customs investigation

[Geoff White]

This might be old news by now but for what it's worth ...



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Subject: PGP Customs investigation
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>Date: Fri, 12 Feb 93 14:47:55 -0800
>Originator: pgp-dev at oc.com
>Errors-To: hughes at soda.berkeley.edu
>Reply-To: pgp-dev at oc.com
>Sender: pgp-dev at oc.com
>Version: 5.5 -- Copyright (c) 1991/92, Anastasios Kotsikonas
>From: prz at sage.cgd.ucar.EDU (Philip Zimmermann)
>To:
>Subject: PGP Customs investigation
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>I just got a call from a criminal investigator from the US Customs
>in San Jose.  She wants to fly out here to Colorado next Thursday to 
>ask me how PGP got out of the USA.  I told her I didn't export it,
>but software published on domestic Internet sites can leak overseas.
>She said I was not legally obligated to answer her questions, but that
>she would like to come here and ask me questions about the program, and
>any other information I wanted to provide on how it got exported.
>She had a copy of the PGP 2.0 User's Guide (and, I presume, the software).
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>I thought this bit of news would be of general interest to PGPeople.
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>Philip Zimmermann
>12 Feb 93
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