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1995-11-07 - Re: Exporting software doesn’t mean exporting (was: Re: lp ?)

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From: “Peter D. Junger” <junger@pdj2-ra.F-REMOTE.CWRU.Edu>
To: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
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UTC Datetime: 1995-11-07 13:19:20 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 21:19:20 +0800

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From: "Peter D. Junger" <junger@pdj2-ra.F-REMOTE.CWRU.Edu>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 21:19:20 +0800
To: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Exporting software doesn't mean exporting (was: Re: lp ?)
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Simon Spero writes:

: On Mon, 6 Nov 1995, Peter D. Junger wrote:
: 
: > 
: > Don't blame this on my being a lawyer; blame it on some very sick
: > people in the Office of Defense Trade Controls and in the NSA.
: 
: I think it's unfair to call the people at the ODTC and the NSA sick; 
: during the cold war, such restrictions did make some sense; in 
: particular, controlling the export of high-performance encryption 
: hardware does make it harder for other countries to deploy ubiquitous 
: strong encryption, particularly in the less developed countries, and 
: particulalry for chips that required exotic fabrication (the soviet union 
: never had really good mass-production facilities). 

The ones I was suggesting are sick are the ones who drafted the
definition of ``export'' and of ``technical data'' in the ITAR.  Would
you consider it more appropriate if I called them perverse?

--
Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
Internet:  junger@pdj2-ra.f-remote.cwru.edu    junger@samsara.law.cwru.edu

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