From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 95 09:46:21 PDT
To: mclow@coyote.csusm.edu (Marshall Clow)
Subject: Re: Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995
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Marshall Clow writes:
> >
> >         "(2) to distribute computer software that encodes or encrypts
> >       electronic or digital communications to computer networks that the
> >       person distributing knows, or reasonably should know, is accessible t
o
> >       foreign nationals and foreign governments, regardless of whether such
> >       software has been designated nonexportable."
> >
>     IANAL, but it seems to me that if I EMAIL a copy of PGP to, say, Tim
> May, that I have just "distributed computer software .... to a computer
> network ...accessible to foreign nationals ..." even though it was
> "private" e-mail.

Depends on how "computer network" is defined in the statute.

Perry