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Originally Posted by HarryT
Yes you can. People in the UK get prosecuted for (for example) going to Thailand and having underage sex with children, even though that is not llegal in Thailand but is illegal in the UK.
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That happens in the Netherlands as well. But only to Dutch citizens, which at least gives *some* legality to that practice. Not enough, in my personal opinion (change 'I' to 'an American' in my speeding ticket case; still no reason to give him a ticket when he gets back to the US), but some. In the ElcomSoft case there wasn't even that much; he was a Russian doing something in Russia that was not illegal there.
This is the same; assuming the guy who wrote the decryption tools is a citizen of a country where writing such tools is not illegal and did the writing there, US (or any other) laws have no jurisdiction whatsoever. Or at least they shouldn't have, which might be a different kettle of fish