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From: desnoyer@Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: USSR International Computer Club (was: Information on the ICC)
Message-ID: <24302@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 19 Jan 89 18:25:30 GMT
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In article <825@afit-ab.arpa> wbralick@blackbird.afit.af.mil (William A. Bralick) writes:
>In article <1560@cps3xx.UUCP> rang@cpswh.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang) writes:
>>In article <824@afit-ab.arpa> wbralick@afit-ab.arpa (William A. Bralick) writes:
>>
>)>Once again, how do you prevent object and source code from being exported
>)>to the Soviet Union?  This is export-controlled technology.

If it is on the net, it is public-domain. In fact, if it is on the net
it has been PUBLISHED (horror of horrors) and any applicable export
control laws have been violated even if it never leaves the shores of
the USA. Don't worry about it, if your actions would be illegal after
a Soviet hookup, they are already illegal now.

>>>  Anything
>)>that can be done to raise the Soviet's cost of acquiring said technology
>)>is a good thing. 

Opinion. Irrelevant in the current discussion.

Note that the net already has a similar problem, but I don't hear much
about it. I can type in chapters from _Spycatcher_ or some other work
that has been censored in Britain under the Official Secrets Act, and
send it to a newsgroup with world-wide distribution. Any British
organization that helped "publish" the article would be in violation
of that same Official Secrets Act (or so I believe).  That's a lot
worse than "violating export control laws by publishing" in a country
with guaranteed freedom of the press. 

				Peter Desnoyers