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As a technologist, I agree with your view. But in cases like sanctions, I think the "Let me show who has the power" mentality takes over. So, a country (say U
by vmurthy 7y ago
As a technologist, I agree with your view.
But in cases like sanctions, I think the "Let me show who has the power" mentality takes over.
So, a country (say USA) can pressure its companies (like Microsoft in 1998) to stop providing some features/services/products to have some leverage over the sanctioned country. The unfortunate pattern in history has been that politics wins over rationality.
- pvg 7y agoDo you have some reference to something that suggests that this is what actually happened? I don't think the US government made Microsoft put weak encryption in export versions of IE because India tested a nuke.
- vmurthy 7y agoSorry! I tried so bad to find it but couldn't :-( Someday ..
- pvg 7y agoI think you can't find it because it just didn't happen that way and you're misremembering something. The export-crippled cryptography in browsers was a real thing but it got there before the Indian nuclear test and for other reasons.