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I have to think the engineers were maliciously complying with the directive. It's far too dark a joke to be honorific.
by dclowd9901 7y ago
I have to think the engineers were maliciously complying with the directive. It's far too dark a joke to be honorific.
- jsjohnst 7y agoRay Ozzie confirmed in a thread below that it was done by Charlie/Al/him as a joke.
- dclowd9901 7y agoLike laughing at a funeral?
- acqq 7y agoLike "we do what we have to do because it's currently a law, but we can't be forced to give a nice name to it, let them know what we think of it:" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21859950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21859950 See the other comments here for a historical context: "exporting" stronger crypto software from the U.S. had the same status as exporting weapons of war.