Fw: Re: ITAR satellite provision

[Adamsc]

On Sat, 5 Oct 1996 05:43:39 -0400 (EDT), 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.

That's kind of like saying "I didn't export PGP, I just handed a diskette to
my Iraqi friend at the airport as he left - what he did with it is his
responsibility"

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