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There are all kinds of things subject to export restrictions: https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/regulations/export-administration-regulations-ear https://www.b

There are all kinds of things subject to export restrictions: https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/regulations/export-administration-regulations-ear https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/regulations/export-adminis... For example, high resolution analog to digital converters have restrictions. In the past strong cryptography even had restrictions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th... Even travel for US citizens was restricted. I have relatives who were in the semiconductor and aerospace industries during the 1980s. They were advised by the government to not attempt to travel to the Eastern Bloc. Some kinda related reading: https://academic.oup.com/dh/article-abstract/43/1/57/5068654?login=false https://academic.oup.com/dh/article-abstract/43/1/57/5068654...

LionTamer 4y ago
I knew about the previous cryptography restrictions, but I also knew that the Supreme Court overruled them by ruling (as I understand it) that “code is speech”. I’ll have to check out the other links though
- tankenmate 4y ago
  This brings back memories of a t-shirt I had that had big red letters on it "Export Controlled" and an implementation of RSA in perl on it.
  - Theodores 4y ago
    #!/usr/local/bin/perl -s-- -export-a-crypto-sardine -RSA-6-line-PERL-fish '\~. __......--------~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-------....____ \ ~.__---~';($k,$n)=@ARGV;$m=unpack(H.$w,$m."\0"x$w),$_=`echo "[o~~-._ \ ]s!16do$w 2+4Oi0$d*-^1[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*La1=z\U$n%0]SX$k"[$m*]"\E[ ~. / ]s!szlXx++p"|dc`,s/^.|\W//g,print pack('H*',$_)while read(STDIN,$m," .' / .-~~--.._" +($w=2*$d-1+length($n||die"$0 [-d] k n\n")&~1)/2);' __..-~ ,/.~ ~~~~----........._______________________.......-----~~'
- schoen 4y ago
  Not the Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit in a subsequently-withdrawn opinion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States (Because the opinion was withdrawn, it's "persuasive" but not "binding".)
  - LionTamer 4y ago
    Good catch

LionTamer 4y ago

I knew about the previous cryptography restrictions, but I also knew that the Supreme Court overruled them by ruling (as I understand it) that “code is speech”. I’ll have to check out the other links though

tankenmate 4y ago
This brings back memories of a t-shirt I had that had big red letters on it "Export Controlled" and an implementation of RSA in perl on it.
- Theodores 4y ago
  #!/usr/local/bin/perl -s-- -export-a-crypto-sardine -RSA-6-line-PERL-fish '\~. __......--------~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-------....____ \ ~.__---~';($k,$n)=@ARGV;$m=unpack(H.$w,$m."\0"x$w),$_=`echo "[o~~-._ \ ]s!16do$w 2+4Oi0$d*-^1[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*La1=z\U$n%0]SX$k"[$m*]"\E[ ~. / ]s!szlXx++p"|dc`,s/^.|\W//g,print pack('H*',$_)while read(STDIN,$m," .' / .-~~--.._" +($w=2*$d-1+length($n||die"$0 [-d] k n\n")&~1)/2);' __..-~ ,/.~ ~~~~----........._______________________.......-----~~'
schoen 4y ago
Not the Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit in a subsequently-withdrawn opinion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States (Because the opinion was withdrawn, it's "persuasive" but not "binding".)
- LionTamer 4y ago
  Good catch