Mass-market crypto phones
Duncan Frissell
frissell at panix.com
Sat Nov 23 19:35:40 PST 1996
At 09:41 PM 11/22/96 -0800, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>PS: Over margaritas and enchiladas tonight, I was talking with one of the
>crypto-ITAR enforcers from State. I mentioned that I'd be going out of the
>country soon and taking my PowerBook laptop. Quite sincerely, he urged me
>to keep a record of when I left and when I returned for five years. You
>see, I have domestic Netscape Navigator on it. Wacky stuff.
Comments like that by Feds are meaningless absent the busts of a few
"laptop smugglers." If they have never busted anyone, it's a dead letter
(all the more so since they legalized casual carry with record keeping).
DCF
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