crypto import to the UK

[Peter Gutmann]

Paul Leyland <pleyland@microsoft.com>
 
>Returning to crypto, if the cost to the customs and associated bureaucrats
>became excessive, and I include non-monetary costs such as delay at airports,
>bad press, and so on, then eventually actions to reduce the cost would be
>taken.  What I do not have a good feel for is what those costs are in
>practice.
 
I'd already considered a permit application filibuster to see what would 
happen, but decided that the risk of being declared the bureaucratic 
equivalent of a vexatious litigant was too risky - if it suddenly costs $50 
or $100 to file an application then things like my arms courier experiment 
become impossible, or at least rather costly.  I'd have no trouble in proving 
a point, but all it would do is make things more difficult in the future.
 
Peter.