Re: Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>]

Marshall Clow writes:
> >
> >         "(2) to distribute computer software that encodes or encrypts
> >       electronic or digital communications to computer networks that the
> >       person distributing knows, or reasonably should know, is accessible t
o
> >       foreign nationals and foreign governments, regardless of whether such
> >       software has been designated nonexportable."
> >
>     IANAL, but it seems to me that if I EMAIL a copy of PGP to, say, Tim
> May, that I have just "distributed computer software .... to a computer
> network ...accessible to foreign nationals ..." even though it was
> "private" e-mail.

Depends on how "computer network" is defined in the statute.

Perry