Re: US Navy could be crippled by software backdoors.

Jim Watt wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:23:54 GMT, Fred J. McCall
> <fmccall@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>
>> Section 6 of Britain's Official Secrets Act applies worldwide.
>
> uh no.
>
> They may be valid on British territory and ships, In the same way
> American laws have no validity in other countries neither do British
> ones.
>
> Otherwise we could claim the back tax on the soggy tea
> in the Boston harbour.

The rest of the Official Secrets Act has the limitation of British
territory and/or British citizens. Section 6 is different, it covers
non British citizens and organisations world wide - they just have to
accept that they received the information "in confidence". To ensure
that readers knows that the document is not for public distribution
there are MOD regulations requiring authors to cover the front page in
warnings.

Andrew Swallow
Received on Mon May 1 01:58:58 2006