> While i think the most dangerous current threat to our freedom and
> democracy is ubiquitous eavesdropping and spoofing by NSA, GCHQ and
> their likes...
It's a popular opinion.
> I admit US scientists also gave us the means to defend against
> it(strong cryptography).
In the immediate postw
@rjh
thanks for your earnest answer to my sloppy and somewhat provocative
post.
>
> > This doesn't make any sense to me.
>
> Makes perfect sense to me, once you understand three things:
>
> (a) at one point all the good crypto came out of either the US, UK,
> or France,
I have to concede
"Robert J. Hansen" wrote:
...
> All this being said, the laws aren't *wholly* stupid. ITAR has a couple
> of nice commonsense exceptions. (See, e.g., ITAR 120.10 (5): ITAR "does
> not include information concerning general scientific, mathematical, or
> engineering principles commonly taught in s
> http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=f8a7e639bbbcdd460e881f7ae4a927b3&node=pt22.1.120&rgn=div5#se22.1.120_110
>
> Has 120.10 a & b but no 5.
See:
http://pmddtc.state.gov/regulations_laws/documents/official_itar/ITAR_Part_120.pdf
That dates from April 1, 2013, and apparently has been updat
e regulations make sense when you consider the historical context in
which they were created, and consider just how hard it is to get old and
outdated laws changed. Are they stupid in the present day? Yeah. But
they're also still the law, and Wind River was *freaking* *stupid* to
knowingly,
On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 00:46 +0200, gnupg-users-requ...@gnupg.org wrote:
>
> I just saw this news story yesterday, ...
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/17/intel_subsidiary_crypto_export_fine/
>
This doesn't make any sense to me.
Either US administration has completely gone nuts and assumes
> I just saw this news story yesterday, and I wasn't sure if folks
> around here already knew about it or not, but since the subject
> of silly export restrictions had come up on this list recently,
> I thought that I should share...
It was brought up and discussed at length less than two days ago
I just saw this news story yesterday, and I wasn't sure if folks
around here already knew about it or not, but since the subject
of silly export restrictions had come up on this list recently,
I thought that I should share...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/17/intel_subsidiary_crypto_export
