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I used to be involved in building and shipping research robots (from Canada) and I remember we ran into this a few times with a bog-standard industrial wifi rad
by mikepurvis 6y ago
I used to be involved in building and shipping research robots (from Canada) and I remember we ran into this a few times with a bog-standard industrial wifi radio that for some reason was under ITAR. Interestingly, the manufacturer of the radio was set up to ship it directly to our customer, we just couldn't integrate it into their robot and ship it from our facility. So they had to put on the radio themselves.
The whole thing seemed very silly and theatre-y to me.
- cubano 6y agoAh yes...the efficiencies never stop coming when you forced to skirt government mandates about tech they know almost nothing about. I have war stories for days about all times companies I worked for had to have customers pull DLLs from 3rd party sites in order to comply with completely political mandates.
- smegger001 6y agoI had a professor tell me a story about a small tech company he worked at way back when, where they actually smuggled their POS terminal system by fishing boat out of the US and into Canada to sell outside the US to get around export controls even though the algorithms they used were widely known.
- noja 6y agoIt'll be even more efficient soon, when the backdoors come.