On 24/2/22 22:27, Jeff Rowse - jeffrowse at hotmail.com (via tml list)
wrote:
> Jeff Zeitlin wrote:
>
> <SNIP>
> Another fun situation arises where for domestic political reasons you
> can't sell [directly] to Starbellisneechia, but for astropolitical
> reasons it's better if Starbellisneechia has _your_ technology rather
> than Whovillia's - so you sell to Grinchistan and "forget" to include
> the no-transfer clauses in the contracts, knowing full well that
> Grinchistan and Starbellisneechia have a close technology-sharing
> agreement...
> <ENDSNIP>
>
> What if your government has imposed very strict controls on what can
> and cannot be exported and to whom, but someone on the 'Definitely Not
> Allowed Under Any Circumstances, At All, Ever" list manages to, ahem,
> "hack into" your computers and "steal" the stuff anyway?
>
> Asking for a friend...
>
> Jeff
> (No the other one.  Not that one either, the /other/ one!) aka Captain
> Chicken, Leg-end in his own lunchbox.
>
> -----
>
The other _other_ *other* Jeff,

Wouldn't it be easier to leverage some poor sod who you've paid off or
blackmailed to ensure the stuff goes walkies?

As Joe Walker said in _Dad's Army_, something along the lines (IIRC, to
Mainwaring) of "That whiskey you get every week don't fall off the back
of a truck.  It has to be pushed."

Alex