1996-11-24 - RE: Mass-market crypto phones

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From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@eff.org>
Message Hash: 0c30ed00e3ceacdb5d5c9e6c889b717420bac6263185874345b1691c42b26bf5
Message ID: <3.0b36.32.19961123223606.00c3a704@panix.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-11-24 03:35:40 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 19:35:40 -0800 (PST)

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From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 19:35:40 -0800 (PST)
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@eff.org>
Subject: RE: Mass-market crypto phones
Message-ID: <3.0b36.32.19961123223606.00c3a704@panix.com>
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At 09:41 PM 11/22/96 -0800, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>PS: Over margaritas and enchiladas tonight, I was talking with one of the
>crypto-ITAR enforcers from State. I mentioned that I'd be going out of the
>country soon and taking my PowerBook laptop. Quite sincerely, he urged me
>to keep a record of when I left and when I returned for five years. You
>see, I have domestic Netscape Navigator on it. Wacky stuff. 

Comments like that by Feds are meaningless absent the busts of a few
"laptop smugglers."  If they have never busted anyone, it's a dead letter
(all the more so since they legalized casual carry with record keeping).

DCF  





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