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Re: Israel crypto restrictions
Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
| Adam Shostack <[email protected]> writes:
| > They're listed on NASDAQ (CKP). This makes them an American
| > company for purposes of export controls. (This from an employee of
| > Checkpoint who I asked that exact question.)
|
| This is truly bizarre. First, if they were on the NASDAQ, they'd have a
| 4-letter ticker symbol, not a 3-letter symbol. MSFT (Microsoft) is on NASDAQ.
| IBM (IBM) and F (Ford) are on the New York stock exchange and/or
| American stock exchange.
Oops. Misread my stock service. I usually pay little
attention to what exchange something is traded on. CKP is on the
NYSE.
| Sometimes the stock of a foreign company is traded in the U.S. in the form
| of American Depository Receipts (ADRs) not sponsored by the company. How
| could that impose any obligation on it?
"He asks, as if the ITARs were logical."
Adam
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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume