[2061] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: New Software Controls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Olsen)
Sun Jan 18 21:18:20 1998
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 18:01:47 -0800
To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
From: Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19980117021618.007266e8@pop.pipeline.com>
At 09:16 PM 1/16/98 -0500, John Young wrote:
>TH points out that there's a broad new provision in the
>BXA Wassenaar rule for controlling telecommunications
>software under Category 5, Part I - Telecommunications,
>quote:
>
> You might want to highlight the following section ... not sure of the
> entire context ... but this isn't something that I'd seen before. It looks
> like control of any software that can transmit data.
>
> c.3. ``Software'' which provides the capability of recovering
> ``source code'' of telecommunications ``software'' controlled by
> 5A001, 5B001, or 5C001;
"They will get my disassembler when they pry it from my cold, dead hard drve!"
Security software, anti-virus software and now disassembly software are
"weapons of war". Do you ever get the feeling that the people who are
pushing this crap never read half the regulations that they pass? It is
pretty obvious none of them have coded a line of code in their life...
I wonder if they makers of "Sourcer" know that they are now "export
controlled"?
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