From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 07:12:55 -0800 (PST)
To: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Subject: Re: Naive Export Question
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Timothy C. May wrote:

| On a related topic, my hunch is that it is much more likely for a
| prosecution to involve a major software company skirting the ITAR/EAR rules
| by subcontracting with offshore companies (e.g., RSADSI using the NEC
| chips, or Cylink using Israeli programmers) than it is that some lowly Net
| person will be proscuted for dribbling out a few hundred lines of some
| crypto program.

	I doubt it.  People are often much more resource poor than
companies.  A company with the prospect of a few million in sales can
defend itself in court much better than some individual.  The ITARs
survive on FUD, not strong legal basis.

Adam



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