Of course not, "click here if you aren't a terrorist" is incorrect.
"click here if you are not a citizen or national of, and this data is
not being downloaded to, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, ..."  quite probably
is adequate.  When I designed the initial CyberCash wallet downloading
page, it checked the inverse DNS and dumped you if that said you were
from a trading-prohibited country, and then asked you the
citizenship/nationality question and the download loation question as
yes/no radio buttons.  If you answered the questions that you were
from a trading-prohibited country or the wallet was to be downloaded
to a trading-prohibited country, you got a page saying it was not
allowed.  This page had a "retry" button on it that took you back to
the questions.  This was consider adequate security.

Donald

From:  Martin Minow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID:  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:  Wed, 24 Nov 1999 16:10:56 -0800
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To:  Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
References:  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <14396.26852.364756.5962
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>Russell Nelson wrote:
>> ...  You also have to (somehow) prevent users from
>> Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria form downloading
>> the code. 
>
>Ok. how am I going to do that (rhetorical question)? My Web Server is the
>module distributed with every recent MacOS system (i.e., all those millions
>of iMac's and iBooks). It's a Control Panel (TSR in DOS-speak) called
>"Web Sharing". As far as I know, it has no mechanism for preventing
>certain domains from accessing a local web page. Of course, I could
>put up a link that says "click here if you aren't a terrorist", but
>I rather doubt that this will satisfy the regulations.
>
>Martin Minow
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>

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