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The issue with PGP was that encrypted communications were classified as a munition, not the concept of export controls. There is no civilian use for an air-to-a
by seoaeu 5y ago
The issue with PGP was that encrypted communications were classified as a munition, not the concept of export controls. There is no civilian use for an air-to-air missile guidance system. There are plenty of private individuals with legitimate reasons to use encryption
- AnthonyMouse 5y ago> There is no civilian use for an air-to-air missile guidance system. People say things like this and then it turns out to be useful for ornithologists who want to use drones to tag wild birds. You never know what something is useful for until somebody uses it for that.
- seoaeu 5y agoIt really shouldn't be very hard to tell whether a garage lab is a terror cell trying to shoot down passenger airlines, or a bunch of ornithologists trying to do better wildlife tracking. Honestly, I'm somewhat puzzled that people here seem to be refusing to acknowledge that the two can be distinguished
- AnthonyMouse 5y agoThe "I know it when I see it" rule works right up to the point that you start enforcing it and Goodhart's Law crushes it into dust. Then all the terrorists you encounter are carrying ornithology equipment because their organization's lawyers told them to and/or actual ornithologists go to prison because they also bought some fireworks for independence day or have a cousin who lives in Iran.