From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 11:57:46 +0800
To: perry@piermont.com
Subject: Re: Export laws don't just affect crypto
Message-ID: <199610020019.RAA02792@mail.pacifier.com>
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At 12:32 PM 10/1/96 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
>Lucky Green writes:
>> > Umm, so are you violating ITAR if you *use* these GPS-guided missiles
>> 
>> No you aren't. A little known provision in the ITAR excempts exports 
>> by missile. Seriously.
>
>Well, not quite -- it exempts exports by space launch, but I think
>thats intended for things like satelite launchings and not for things
>like missile attacks against other countries...


If ITAR exempts exports by missile, does that mean that we merely have to 
make a model rocket, put a floppy containing PGP in the payload compartment, 
and shoot the thing over the wall into Mexico, or into Canada?


Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com