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HP Accused of Illegal Exportation To Iran

Posted by timothy on from the trade-tends-to-bring-people-together dept.

AdamWeeden writes "According to research done by the Boston Globe, HP has been secretly using a third-party company to sell printers to Iran. This is illegal under a ban instituted in 1995 by then US President Bill Clinton. The third-party company, Redington Gulf, operates out of Dubai and previously stated on their web site that the company began in 1997 with 'a team of five people and the HP supplies as our first product, we started operations as the distributor for Iran,' though now the site has been changed to remove the mention of Iran. Has HP unknowingly been supplying Iran with technology or have they been trying to secretly get by the US government's export restrictions?"

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  1. HPSetup SSID by Gizzmonic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nice to hear that another country has its entire WLAN infastructure polluted by "Hpsetup" SSIDs!

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  2. Unknowingly? by geobeck · · Score: 5, Funny

    Has HP unknowingly been supplying Iran with technology

    Only if you put big finger-quotes around "unknowingly".

    On the other hand, maybe this is a secret government plot to bankrupt Iran by selling them cheap printers, then gouging them on cartridges.

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  3. Ixnay on the interpay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    shhhhhh.... it is a CIA ploy to bankrupt Iran via HP printer ink refills... would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for that meddling /.

  4. Re:ummm ... printers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why devalue the paper?

  5. PC LOAD LTR by conspirator57 · · Score: 5, Funny

    PC load letter! FSCK!

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