On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 09:45:53AM -0400, Mike M wrote: > On Tuesday 20 May 2003 20:12, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > >?Any restrictions to observe if coming from US? ?Are they better to > > >?arrive from a non-US source? > > > > hehe... > > And I thought the cold war was finished !!! "The Iron Curtain hasn't collapsed, it's just moved eastward" (or words to that effect) - Nicholas Cage, "Clear Waters Rising", talking about his experiences with Ukrainian border security. > Putting encryption software on a CD and mailing it to someone you don't know > could be the first step in violating a federal law in some places on this > planet. The person receiving the CD could forward it to a country that is > restricted from such software by the sender's country, making the original > sender a possible conspirator in this scenario. The US has laws regarding > the export of encryption software. Other countries may have similar laws. I > believe that officials in these countries are more prepared to follow up on > such transgressions than in the recent past. A sincere act to help could > backfire. Ignorance is no defense in these matters. Re US export laws, isn't that what the non-US version is for? Other countries' import laws - No idea... I know that Yugoslavia used to ban the sending of postcards in Pitspeak, but that's not much help. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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