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From: wbralick@afit-ab.arpa (William A. Bralick)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: USSR International Computer Club (was: Information on the ICC)
Message-ID: <834@afit-ab.arpa>
Date: 21 Jan 89 03:15:22 GMT
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In article <1346@orion.cf.uci.edu> dlawyer@balboa.eng.uci.edu.UUCP (David Lawyer) writes:
>
)I just checked the laws regarding export of software to the USSR et. al.
)It's covered in the "Code of Federal Regulations" vol. 15: "Commerce and
)Foreign Trade" in Part 379 "Technical Data".  "Technical Data" includes
)software.
)

Thanks for the info.  The rest of your posting implied (unless I was
completely misunderstanding it) that, in particular, posting software
to the Soviet Union (and vice versa) was O.K. so long as the posting 
itself was legal (i.e. violating no copyrights, etc.)  

This should give the physical security guys nightmares.  I won't even 
mention the notion of remotely triggerable viruses, etc.  I wonder how 
long defense contractors (not to mention the rest of the arpa side 
of the house) will stay connected once the Soviet Union gets on...

Regards,
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