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NEWS.COM reports

        U.S. export limits on encryption are unconstitutional, the Ninth
        Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today.

        A three-judge panel affirmed the U.S. District Court in San
        Francisco's decision in Daniel Bernstein vs. the Justice
        Department, according to Bernstein's attorney, Cindy Cohn.

The argument (as I understand it) goes that software is language, so limits
on software implies limits on language, which violates the First Amendment
(free speech), which is unconstitutional.

The (brief right now) story is at

      < http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,36217,00.html >

--Glenn