Wind River Systems, a subsidiary of Intel Corporation, has agreed to pay a $750,000 civil penalty for unauthorized encryption exports. The Alameda, California, company was charged with selling encryption software products to foreign governments and organizations on the BIS Entity List, which requires specific license requirements to do business with those entities.
This software is valued at $2.9 million and controlled for national security reasons. It was created to encrypt binary files to protect intellectual property from piracy and reverse engineering. It can also be used to set up security systems for Wi-Fi networks.
The company voluntarily came forward to the BIS in April 2012 to inform them that they exported 55 units of their operating software to various governments and organizations in China, Hong Kong, Russia, Israel, South Africa, and South Korea.
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