[919] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: your mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu May 29 18:43:36 1997
To: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 29 May 1997 16:11:07 EDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 17:37:06 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Duncan Frissell writes:
> Prosecution was also not certain. Note that no one has been
> prosecuted for software exports even though there's been a great
> deal of it going on, some of it in public.
I will note, however, that the cryptography section of the ITAR was
successfully used in court -- some people selling G.I. Videocipher
boxes overseas were prosecuted using the ITAR as the mechanism a
number of years ago. I suspect none of them had even considered that
they were selling "munitions" when they smuggled satelite TV boxes
overseas, but...
Perry
