Rich Salz wrote:
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> Perhaps because the illegality of such "retroactive" actions is a fundamental
> part of our legal framework? If it's legal now, it can be illegal later, but
> you can never make a law or ruling that says "what you did before used to be
> okay but now isn't."
>
Well I'm no expert on US law. I know of at least one example of a UK
retroactive law of sorts but I'm no expert on that either:-)
Then there's the magic words "national security" which tend to get
mentioned and all rational debate gets thrown out the window...
> The gentleman from Intel implied here that they have legal staff who could
> help clarify and confirm this issue...
If they can that would be great. There's lots of areas where some extra
developers (US or otherwise) would be a great help.
Steve.
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