U.S. State Department crackdown (fwd)

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From: Jim Conrad <jjc@infi.net>
Subject: U.S. State Department crackdown

Thought you'all might find this interesting ...


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>Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:26:56 -0500
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>From: jmatk@tscm.com (James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng)
>Subject: U.S. State Department crackdown
>
>The U.S. State Department is starting to crackdown on the illegal
>export of TSCM and SIGINT equipment under ITAR.
>
>Noice how section (b) is worded:
>
>"...equipment designed or modified to counteract electronic surveillance
>or monitoring."
>
>-jma
>
>
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>
>DEPARTMENT OF STATE - Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs
>22 CFR Parts 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, and 130
>
>=================================================================
>
>  Category XI-Military [and Space] Electronics
>
>   (a) Electronic equipment not included in Category XII of the U.S. Munitions
>List which is specifically designed, modified or configured for military
>application. This equipment includes but is not limited to:
>
>   *(b) Electronic systems or equipment specifically designed, modified, or
>configured for intelligence, security, or military purposes for use in search,
>reconnaissance, collection, monitoring, direction-finding, display,
analysis and
>production of information from the electromagnetic spectrum and electronic
>systems or equipment designed or modified to counteract electronic surveillance
>or monitoring. A system meeting this definition is controlled under this
>subchapter even in instances where any individual pieces of equipment
>constituting the system may be subject to the controls of another U.S.
>Government agency. Such systems or equipment described above include, but are
>not limited to, those:
>
>   (1) Designed or modified to use cryptographic techniques to generate the
>spreading code for spread spectrum or hopping code for frequency agility. This
>does not include fixed code techniques for spread spectrum.
>
>   (2) Designed or modified using burst techniques (e.g., time compression
>techniques) for intelligence, security or military purposes.
>
>   (3) Designed or modified for the purpose of information security to suppress
>the compromising emanations of information-bearing signals. This covers TEMPEST
>suppression technology and equipment meeting or designed to meet government
>TEMPEST standards. This definition is not intended to include equipment
designed
>to meet Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commercial electro-magnetic
>interference standards or equipment designed for health and safety.
>
>
>
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> "If it doesn't involve a torque wrench, then it's not TEMPEST"
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