Hacked!
Some enterprising pornographer — from Sweden judging by my server logs — hacked the site sometime yesterday in an unsuccessful attempt to strew porno links everywhere. As a result the site was down last night and this morning. We’ve updated…
Florida Man Charged With “Brokering” His Own Defense Exports
This recently unsealed criminal complaint against a Florida man shows that the FBI agents and the federal prosecutors haven’t a clue as to the correct reading of the definition of a “broker” in Part 129 of the International Traffic in…
Weatherford in Cuba
An article in today’s CNN Money contains some interesting tidbits about Weatherford’s operations in sanctioned countries, which we first reported here, and which have been the subject of a governmental investigation. First, the article notes that Weatherford’s divestment of its…
Is There A Secret United States Munitions List?
A magistrate hearing pretrial motions in the criminal export case against Doli Syarief Pulungan wondered in a recently issued Report and Recommendation1 whether there might be a secret version of the USML which lists actual items rather than categories of…
Man Bites Dog? (Part 2)
Mr. Sasan Azodi, mentioned in yesterday’s post, called me just a few minutes ago to give me his side of the dispute between him and Dräger Safety as to who was at fault for the export of the VisioWave security…