From: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 93 20:34:47 PDT
To: "L. Detweiler" <ld231782@longs.lance.colostate.edu>
Subject: Re: NSA harassing crypto software writer over export (fwd, sci.crypt)
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What exactly is "Moby Crypto"?  Is it a book?  A disk?

The current law can be interpreted to mean that a piece of code on
paper is legal, but on a disk is not.  Clearly, this is what the NSA
is doing.  Stupid?  Yes, IMHO.  But the government has refused to see
it this way.  This person does not need lawyers.  He needs
congresscritters, preferably a majority of them :-/

>> I think collecting a large number of these citations
>> will help my attornies in pointing out the absurdity
>> of the situation to government attornies if necessary.

He is naive if he things proving that a law is absurd is sufficient to
nullify it.

		Marc