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From: garry@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Garry Wiegand)
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Subject: Re: There are basically no export controls on public domain information.
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Date: Mon, 27-Oct-86 17:39:54 EST
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In a recent article karn@petrus.UUCP (Phil R. Karn) wrote:
>Just HOW is the government going to enforce export controls on machine
>readable information?

By making threatening noises. Which will be sufficient to scare 99% of the
computer companies in this country, judging by the postings about 'crypt'.

If threatening noises aren't sufficient, public innuendo and name-dropping
comes next (a la the Pornography Commission.) If *that* isn't sufficient, and 
if worse comes to worst, there's always selective and imaginative enforcement 
of the law.

The bottom line is: if somebody in this country says "national security!",
you jump. 

cynically,

garry wiegand   (garry%cadif-oak@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu)

(The opinions expressed above are indeed those of my company.)