Anguilla Cypherpunks Meeting

Timothy C. May tcmay at got.net
Fri Oct 13 16:34:53 PDT 1995


At 3:41 PM 10/13/95, s1018954 at aix2.uottawa.ca wrote:
>Really? I thought except for incomes taxes, US laws only apply in American
>territory as opposed to applying to American people wherever they are (as
>I heard Germany's does).

It depends on what is meant by "outside the country." The law forbidding
travel to Cuba, for example, is not enforced by U.S. cops outside the
country, but upon reentry to the U.S. Ditto for other laws, such as those
affecting aid and support of countries we don't like, and the laws about
trading with the enemy.

>What if you were a dual citizen (US/Canada in my case)?

For the purposes of crypto laws (and many other laws, truth be told),
Canada is treated as a smallish northern state in the U.S.

--Tim May

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