From: mclow@coyote.csusm.edu (Marshall Clow)
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 95 09:43:23 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995
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No one seems to have pointed this out, so:
(maybe it's obvious to everyone else)

>    "Sec. 1030A.  Racketeering-related crimes involving computers
>      "(a) It shall be unlawful--
>
>   . . .
>
>         "(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 to
>       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.

   Comments, anyone?   Anyone? Bueller? ;-)


>Get a copy of this bill from:
>                ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/thomas/c104/s974.is.FTP
>and read it.
>
   Betcher ass.

-- Marshall
"The constitution. It's not perfect, but it's a damn sight better than what
we've got."