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I thought embargoes didn't apply to information anyway? You're still allowed to text someone in Cuba or even call North Korea, so how come Slack is banned?

• dylan604 8y ago
  Texts/SMS/voice calls etc are not encrypted. The NSA slurps that data up like a sponge wrapped in Brawny wrapped in a ShamWow. There's a huge list of why we can't export/sale things to certain countries, but encryption is one of them. Things that seem "innocent" enough like a hardware video box might qualify as embargoed because it has the ability to decode SSL network traffic. Can't let that tech get in the hands of the "enemy".
  • roblabla 8y ago
    Encryption is not considered ammo since forever now. And slack doesn't have E2E encryption, and is an american company. The NSA can just knock on the front door and ask for the data, same as they would for an ISP.
    • mikestew 8y ago
      Encryption is not considered ammo since forever now. Regardless, there remain restrictions on certain countries.
    • niij 8y ago
      It is still expert controlled to embargoed countries. The law makes no distinction between Encryption, so non-E2E doesn't mean anything.
  • morpheuskafka 8y ago
    But what encryption does Slack actually ship? If it just uses SSL then that is being done by the browser not the Slack JS code.