NODE 0c30ed00RE: Mass-market crypto phones
Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>Sat, 23 Nov 1996 19:35:40 -0800 (PST)
At 09:41 PM 11/22/96 -0800, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>PS: Over margaritas and enchiladas tonight, I was talking with one of the
>crypto-ITAR enforcers from State. I mentioned that I'd be going out of the
>country soon and taking my PowerBook laptop. Quite sincerely, he urged me
>to keep a record of when I left and when I returned for five years. You
>see, I have domestic Netscape Navigator on it. Wacky stuff.
Comments like that by Feds are meaningless absent the busts of a few
"laptop smugglers." If they have never busted anyone, it's a dead letter
(all the more so since they legalized casual carry with record keeping).
DCF