Preventing unauthorized use of protected equipment in violation of export regulations

A method for preventing unauthorized use of protected equipment in violation of export regulations comprising:

• periodically obtaining a location of the protected equipment and storing the location in a location log in a non-volatile memory;
• upon receiving a request to operate the protected equipment:
• obtaining the location log from the non-volatile memory;
• parsing data from the location log to determine whether the protected equipment entered a restricted geographic area;
• and
• based on a determination that the protected equipment did not enter a restricted geographic area, granting the request to operate the protected equipment.

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith the program instructions executable by a computer processor to cause the computer processor to perform a method, comprising:

• periodically obtaining a location of a protected equipment and storing the location in a location log in a non-volatile memory;
• upon receiving a request to operate the protected equipment:
• obtaining the location log from the non-volatile memory;
• parsing data from the location log to determine whether the protected equipment entered a restricted geographic area;
• and
• based on a determination that the protected equipment did not enter a restricted geographic area, granting the request to operate the protected equipment.