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- From: jani.patokallio%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Jani Patokallio)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: PGP - Legal?
- Message-ID: <1320.204.uupcb@ssr.com>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 19:04:00 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Advanced Computer Concepts BBS, New Rochelle, NY 914-654-1981
- Reply-To: jani.patokallio%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Jani Patokallio)
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- In message <1993Jan3.193639.1398#netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com
- (David Sternlight) said:
- -> Jim Lynch says that if jano patokallio has diplomatic immunity he
- -> can do anything.
- ->
- -> Not without consequences. Though I make no comment about PGP, in
- -> general he can be declared persona non grata and expelled. This
- -> can have both personal and professional consequences.
-
- Agreed. Also, the laws of Finland and the US are basically similar,
- the odds are that a crime here is a crime in Finland and I can be tried
- there for it.
-
- -> As to PGP, it is in the realm of possibility that if the U.S.
- -> Government wished and knew about it, he can be accused of
- -> espionage and expelled.
-
- It is also in the realm of possibility that a meteorite will crash
- through my house right now, but it is rather unlikely. I also doubt
- very greatly that I would be expelled for a civil case. However, one of
- my four questions was that if I have PGP imported from Europe, can I use it
- legally in my house here? (Which evidently is extraterritorial, thanks
- David!) If my persona, my belongings, and my communications are inviolable
- according to international law, it would seem so.
-
- -> If he is not an intelligence person this
- -> can be quite damaging, and if he is and under cover, this will
- -> "tag" him, making his cover useless in future in the U.S. and
- -> in some other countries (if the U.S. has information sharing
- -> arrangements with those countries).
-
- If I was under cover I would not post about it on the net. Besides,
- to my knowledge the Finnish Government has not employed spies since
- World War II.
-
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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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