802 gear - sale & import prohibited - wtf?

[Fritz]

http://www.buffalotech.com/products/wire...cessories/

this is no doubt old news to many, but .............

[cbelt3]

It has to do with encryption technologies. Which laws are basically stupid, because the tech is made outside the US anyway, and is not under our control.

Don't you remember when the G4 was considered a 'Weapon' ?

[Fritz]

never saw that. pretty good. so I guess my old C64 is only a weapon if you throw it

[OWC Jamie]

If just anybody and everybody could import and export this high tech stuff, the Big Boys couldn't make the BIg Bucks.

[mattkime]

What if the terrorists could secure their Wireless Access Points?

[GGD]

[quote cbelt3]It has to do with encryption technologies. Which laws are basically stupid, because the tech is made outside the US anyway, and is not under our control.

Don't you remember when the G4 was considered a 'Weapon' ?

I don't think you read the page at the Buffalo site, this is not an import/export of encryption (munitions) case, it's a patent violation case and an injunction against importing products that infringe on that patent.

Few people probably remember this, but back in 1990, Motorola was involved in a patent case and a judge ordered them to stop shipping 68030 processors (which Apple was using at the time).

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.ht...A966958260

[ztirffritz]

I thought that this is related to a pissing war between Qualcom and Broadcom.

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showA...=199902510

But that one is over phones.