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Can the US Stop the Illegal Export of Its Technology?
coondoggie writes "Maybe people are more desperate or maybe there's just too much opportunity to make a quick buck but whatever the excuse, attempts to illegally export technology from the US has gone through the roof.
The Department of Justice this week said it has placed criminal charges or convictions against more than 255 defendants in the past two fiscal years — 145 in 2008 and 110 in 2007. That 255 number represents more than a six-fold increase from fiscal year 2005, when the DOJ said about 40 individuals or companies were convicted of over 100 criminal violations of export control laws."
We just outsource the means of producing it en masse. Semantics count people!
Good thing there wasn't another attempt, otherwise the counter would've overflowed.
The true number is actually much higher, but with all the technology going overseas, the feds have to do with 8bit registers.
Badabumm - disssssh. Thanks! I'll be here all week. Try the lamb.
I had this idea before you posted it. You thief!
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
Good thing there wasn't another attempt, otherwise the counter would've overflowed.
WORD.
Upward mobility is a slippery slope - the higher you climb the more you show your ass.
...and yet, information hates to be anthromorphized. It's funny that way.