Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 09:47:48 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> To: Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au> Cc: Lanny Baron <beef@cybertouch.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ssh in canada. Message-ID: <19980928094748.D24768@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.02A.9809281041250.20593-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au>; from Nicholas Charles Brawn on Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 10:50:03AM %2B1000 References: <19980927181616.40612@goatsucker.org> <Pine.SOL.4.02A.9809281041250.20593-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au>
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On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 10:50:03AM +1000, Nicholas Charles Brawn wrote: > On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > [snip] > > Well, ssh has the ability to use strong encryption which, because it might > > be used by pornographers, terrorists, drug dealers, etc. to cover up their > > nefarious activites, is illegal to export from the US (that somehow > > includes Canada for the purposes of this particular law). Clearly we > > Umm, why feel the need to export it? It's *developed* OUTSIDE the bloody > US! Well, say I bring my laptop (with perfectly legal international versions of PGP, ssh, etc on it) with me to the US next time I'm there. It's legal to bring the machine into the country, but technically illegal to take it out again when I leave. Fortunately US immigration have never hassled me about it (even whilst wearing my RSA-perl T-shirt :) so I don't know how the law is applied to we evil foreigners. I'm well aware of the stupidity of these laws, I was just trying to explain the situation to someone who clearly hadn't encountered it before. Perhaps I should have put my last message inside <sarcasm> tags? Anyway, this topic has been done to death in about a million other threads. Cheers, Scott. -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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