Naive Export Question
Adam Shostack
adam at homeport.org
Sat Jan 4 07:12:55 PST 1997
Timothy C. May wrote:
| On a related topic, my hunch is that it is much more likely for a
| prosecution to involve a major software company skirting the ITAR/EAR rules
| by subcontracting with offshore companies (e.g., RSADSI using the NEC
| chips, or Cylink using Israeli programmers) than it is that some lowly Net
| person will be proscuted for dribbling out a few hundred lines of some
| crypto program.
I doubt it. People are often much more resource poor than
companies. A company with the prospect of a few million in sales can
defend itself in court much better than some individual. The ITARs
survive on FUD, not strong legal basis.
Adam
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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
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