Last week the Bureau of Industry and Security published a final rule implementing the changes adopted by the December 2016 Wassenaar Arrangements Plenary meeting. Most of these changes are the usual nits and quibbles cooked up to justify a nice…
According to this Reuters report, the Russians are demanding from U.S. companies the right to view source code of software that these companies wish to sell in Russia. The software at issue includes software with encryption capabilities, anti-virus software and…
The recent OFAC sanctions on Russia’s FSB né KGB, which is the Kremlin’s spy agency, may have unintended consequences. According to this article on the Russian website by my friend Иван Ткачёв (Ivan Tkachev) the FSB, besides doing typical spy…
My dog Maisie shamelessly plugging the historic Cubs victory in the 2016 World Series This blog previously reported on the recent changes to the encryption rules. One less-than-carefully drafted provision in those amendments has been causing some confusion relating…
Yesterday, the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) announced various amendments to the encryption rules. I realize that the encryption rules are a sprawling mess, scattered through various sections of the EAR and written in an incomprehensible jargon that sounds…