1994-05-04 - Re: The ITARs

Header Data

From: “Ice-Fox (aka Robert Sturtz)” <rsturt@wilbur.mbark.swin.oz.au>
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us>
Message Hash: 4d7a6420964ceb1c9d10716484598ac00480493ccb79c0a3f150f9e6d1c7fc46
Message ID: <Pine.3.07.9405050123.C18452-b100000@wilbur.mbark.swin.oz.au>
Reply To: <199405041429.KAA00574@orchard.medford.ma.us>
UTC Datetime: 1994-05-04 15:18:37 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 4 May 94 08:18:37 PDT

Raw message

From: "Ice-Fox (aka Robert Sturtz)" <rsturt@wilbur.mbark.swin.oz.au>
Date: Wed, 4 May 94 08:18:37 PDT
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us>
Subject: Re: The ITARs
In-Reply-To: <199405041429.KAA00574@orchard.medford.ma.us>
Message-ID: <Pine.3.07.9405050123.C18452-b100000@wilbur.mbark.swin.oz.au>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain


On Wed, 4 May 1994, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

>    This is sick. According to this, I cannot teach foreigners about
>    cryptography in the U.S. -- even about the open literature. This is a
>    grotesque denial of my first amendment rights.

does that also mean that an american cannot use his/her knowledge overseas?
(btw im australian and therefore know nothing about american law)
> 
> When this issue came up in a discussion on export control issues with
> my employer's export control guru, he said that they basically never
> bothered to enforce this in the case of open courses at colleges &
> universities (because they knew it was unenforceable and
> unconstitutional).
>
good for him 
> 						- Bill



		 Yours in SYNC. Robert Sturtz
   __                                                                     __
__///       rsturt@wilbur.mbark.swin.oz.au      (Ice-Fox on irc)       __///
\XX/      Vice-President of Eastern Wargamers And Roleplayers Club     \XX/

   -------------------------BEGIN SPOOK FODDER-------------------------
  kill, bomb, maim, plot, c4, sex, murder, assassinate, gun, nuke, plan
   --------------------------END SPOOK FODDER--------------------------







Thread