The number of commenters who clearly did not read the story and have completely missed that this story was about the year 2000 is pretty stunning. Plus the com

The number of commenters who clearly did not read the story and have completely missed that this story was about the year 2000 is pretty stunning. Plus the complete lack of understanding of the encryption standards that were legally exportable (which is also mentioned in the story) and seen as good enough is kind of stunning. 40 bit encryption in 2000 was decent. It wasn't great, but it would deter almost anyone.