From: thad@hammerhead.com (Thaddeus J. Beier)
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 01:56:41 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: lp ?
Message-ID: <199511061539.HAA04245@hammerhead.com>
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Michael Shields quoted and wrote:
> Anonymous <nobody@REPLAY.COM> wrote:
> > > -- then through the same
> > >  Vienna, Virginia (USA) site ...
> 
> ...a major router at a major interconnect run by UUNET, a major provider.
> datasrv appaently contracted with UUNET for traffic.  Naturally it would
> go through their network, which is centered in the US.

So, if this person was sending cryptographics codes from Switzerland
to Israel, the code would have been imported to the US, then exported
by UUNET.  They can't do that, can they?  Probably nobody would prosecute,
but it might be something to threaten UUNET with if one of their Northern
Virginia neighbors ever wanted something the couldn't get otherwise.

thad
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