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Article #2566PGP - Legal?
From: Jani Patokallio
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 16:30
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 16:30
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OK folks, here's the PGP question of the day.
I am a Finnish citizen with diplomatic immunity residing in the United States.
I'm not sure about this, but I think PGP and RSA are legal in Finland.
I recently stumbled into a copy of PGP 2.1 on a local BBS. Now,
hypothetically, if I obtained this program, would I be breaking the law?
My house is rented and thus not extraterritorial property. How about
if I took it to a house owned by the Finnish government, and thus legally
considered not a part of the US?
Also, suppose I had gotten my PGP in Europe. Could I legally bring it to
the U.S.? How about the U.N. via the U.S.?
Third, suppose I had a copy of PGP. Could I take it to the
U.S.? To other Finnish/non-American citizens here? To the Finnish Embassy,
which is extraterritorial?
And a final question. If any of the above were illegal, could PKP
sue me? Could the U.S. government do more than declare me a
persona non grata and request the Finnish government to try me?
Thank you in advance.
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Jani Patokallio | "Ignorance is the soil in which belief
acc1bbs!jani.patokallio@ssr.com | in miracles grows." -R. G. Ingersoll
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!hotmomma!acc1bbs!jani.patokallio From: jani.patokallio%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Jani Patokallio) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: PGP - Legal? Message-ID: <1111.204.uupcb@ssr.com> Date: 26 Dec 92 16:30:00 GMT Distribution: world Organization: Advanced Computer Concepts BBS, New Rochelle, NY 914-654-1981 Reply-To: jani.patokallio%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Jani Patokallio) Lines: 31