From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 95 12:25:17 PDT
To: jim@acm.org
Subject: Re: ftp://www.brooks.af.mil/pub/unix/utils/des.tar
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	I would expect that as the folks responsible for the FTP site,
you could drag the USAF into the lawsuit as a co-defendant, then get
the suit against you dropped because of the statue of limitations,
leaving the AG investigating the Air Force. :)

Adam

| > Would someone from outside the US try to download the above file?
| > It would be, at least, amusing if an Air Force site were in violation
| > of the ITAR (their README notwithstanding).
| 
| Hurm -- if Phil Karn and I knowingly allow it to remain there, that puts
| us in the same position as Phil Zimmermann, right?  Oh -- except that our
| offenses may already be beyond the statute of limitations.

-- 
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
					               -Hume