A federal district court in Chicago recently unsealed a criminal complaint against an Illinois man for importing an oil pump and attempting to import some LED traffic lights from Taiwan to the United States. The reason that these activities are…
ABOVE: Apstar-7 launch in China Picture this scenario: a U.S. defense contractor leases time on a Chinese satellite and uses the transponders of that satellite to beam ITAR-controlled technical data between and among its facilities in the United States. The…
ABOVE: Computerlinks FZCOHQ, DSO Building, Dubai The Dubai subsidiary of Munich-based Computerlinks recently agreed to pay $2.8 million dollars to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) to settle charges that the Dubai subsidiary exported sophisticated Internet surveillance software to…
ABOVE: Mojtabi Atarodi Back in January 2012, this blog first reported on the strange case of Mojtabi Atarodi, a professor at Tehran’s prestigious Sharif University of Technology who was arrested in December 2011 the moment he landed in Los Angeles…
Samsung has just announced that, as of May 22, it is shutting off access from Iran to its mobile phone app store. The move, announced in an email to customers, was somewhat vague about the reason for the decision, citing…