From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jul 27 19:59:25 1995 Return-Path: security-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id TAA21626 for security-outgoing; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 19:59:25 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA21620 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 19:59:22 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA02155; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 19:58:15 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199507280258.TAA02155@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: secure/ changes... To: jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (Julian Stacey) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 19:58:14 -0700 (PDT) Cc: trost@cloud.rain.com, security@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507272334.BAA01164@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> from "Julian Stacey" at Jul 28, 95 01:34:03 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1171 Sender: security-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > > It is illegal to import anything you can not > > legally posses(sp). > That's a somewhat questionable projection. That was not a projection, that is infact in the import law. DoC will not allow you to import anything that would cause you to ``violate a Local, State or Federal law'' by importing it. The Local or State law only applies at the point of import. So if widgit XYZ is legal to posses in California but not in New York I simply route shippment such that the point of import in San Francisco. If it is a Federal law, well, then there aren't such loop holes. > Few lawyers study logic & civil servants draft laws, reporting to politicians > for approval. No one checks the `rule set' of a country's historical > accumulation of centuries of law for logical consistency. This has nothing to do with logic, or deductive reasoning. It was a rewording of the applicable import regulations. Note that regulations are not necessarily law, and are often created by yet another bueracracy(sp). -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD