From: "Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 09:14:00 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Can the inevitability of Software privacy be used to   defeat the ITAR?
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On Thu, 11 Jul 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:

> Go back an read Hal Abelson's message of just a few days ago. MIT may lose
> out on a large contract with Sandia becuase of their publishing of a _book_
> containing PGP code.

This isn't quite analogous to the original problem of a software company making
good-faith efforts to prevent a program from being exported.  AFAIK, MIT did
not try to prevent the book from being exported (of course, the State
Department never did approve or deny their request to export the book).  Sandia
could claim that MIT came very close to violating ITAR, but the same claim
could not be made if the issue was a software program which was
export-controlled.

- -- Mark

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