[Infowarrior] - Wassenaar amended ... prohibiting what?

[Richard Forno]

(c/o DG for finding this gem)

Begin forwarded message:

> I suggest you immediately familiarize yourself with last month's
> changes to the Wassenaar Agreement, perhaps starting here:
> 
> http://oti.newamerica.net/blogposts/2013/international_agreement_reached_control
> ling_export_of_mass_and_intrusive_surveillance
> 
> Precis: Two new classes of export prohibited software:
> 
> Intrusion software
> 
>    "Software" specially designed or modified to avoid detection
>    by 'monitoring tools', or to defeat 'protective countermeasures',
>    of a computer or network capable device, and performing any of
>    the following:
> 
>    a. The extraction of data or information, from a computer or
>    network capable device, or the modification of system or user
>    data; or
> 
>    b. The modification of the standard execution path of a program
>    or process in order to allow the execution of externally provided
>    instructions.
> 
> IP network surveillance systems
> 
>    5. A. 1. j. IP network communications surveillance systems or
>    equipment, and specially designed components therefor, having
>    all of the following:
> 
>    1. Performing all of the following on a carrier class IP network
>    (e.g., national grade IP backbone):
> 
>    a. Analysis at the application layer (e.g., Layer 7 of Open
>    Systems Interconnection (OSI) model (ISO/IEC 7498-1));
> 
>    b. Extraction of selected metadata and application content
>    (e.g., voice, video, messages, attachments); and
> 
>    c. Indexing of extracted data; and
> 
>    2. Being specially designed to carry out all of the following:
> 
>    a. Execution of searches on the basis of 'hard selectors'; and
> 
>    b. Mapping of the relational network of an individual or of a
>    group of people.
> 
> All the same arguments that applied to exportation bans for crypto
> software apply here, especially that of pointlessness.  Note that
> at least part of the privacy community is applauding, which I find
> truly inexplicable.