Fw: Re: ITAR satellite provision

The Deviant deviant at pooh-corner.com
Sat Oct 5 04:49:33 PDT 1996


On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Greg Broiles wrote:

> At 08:09 PM 10/4/96 +0000, The Deviant wrote:
> 
> >So.. if I were to take PGP, put it on a floppy disk, tape it to a model
> >rocket, and launch it across the mexican border, that's not exporting it
> >(although the FAA might complain)?
> 
> As I read the regs, it's not an export at the moment it's launched, but
> it's almost certainly an export when it reaches Mexican airspace or when it
> touches Mexican soil.
> 

Well now, I didn't send it accross the border.  I sent it up.  wind sent
it accross the border.

>
> The "rocket exception" is not useful vis-a-vis crypto. Period. I'm very
> sorry I ever had anything to do with this thread and I'm not posting about
> it again. 
> 


 --Deviant
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