The ITARs

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

Jim Miller says:
> Section #120.9 of the ITAR defines "Defense Service" as:
> 
>   (1) The furnishing of assistance (including training) to foreign  
> persons, whether in the United States or abroad in the design,  
> development, engineering, manufacture, production, assembly, testing,  
> repair, maintenance, modification, operation, demilitarization,  
> destruction, processing, or use of defense articles; or
>   (2) The furnishing to foreign persons of any technical data  
> controlled under this subchapter (see #120.10), whether in the United  
> States or abroad.

This is sick. According to this, I cannot teach foreigners about
cryptography in the U.S. -- even about the open literature. This is a
grotesque denial of my first amendment rights.

I wonder if I should hold an open enrollment cryptography class for
the sake of civil disobediance.

Perry