Computerworld posted a story today on Microsoft and the other Internet heavy hitters Google and Yahoo! shutting down instant messaging services to countries subject to U.S. economic sanctions, i.e., Cuba, North Korea, Syria, Sudan and Iran. (I reported the Microsoft…
The E.U. has issued a Council Regulation establishing a community-wide framework for export controls on dual-use items, including controls on brokering. The regulation adopts the international controls required by the Wassenaar Arrangement, the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), the Nuclear…
ABOVE: Tbilsi, Georgia Worldnet Daily, a highly partisan and potentially unreliable source, reports that the Obama administration placed a hold on all U.S. military exports to Georgia due to a “policy review,” with no indication as to when it will…
ABOVE: Skopje, Macedonia The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) just released an order fining and denying export privileges for Micei International, a retailer of guns. police equipment, digital cameras and other miscellaneous items in Skopje, Macedonia. The order, which…
Economic sanctions continue to spread into cyberspace as Microsoft announced last Friday that customers in sanctioned countries would receive an error message if they tried to log into their Windows Live Messenger accounts and would no longer be able to…