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I can't help but think that the regulators have just triggered the Streisand effect in this case. The components cost for this type of system has sunk through t

I can't help but think that the regulators have just triggered the Streisand effect in this case. The components cost for this type of system has sunk through the floor. As in the case of PGP, I suspect that development outside of the US will take place, and we'll end up having to "import" the very technology from "experts" outside of the US while the internal pool of experts move on to other less forbidden fruit. Thus we'll lose any leadership we had her in the US.

photochemsyn 4y ago
It does seem comparable to PGP and the whole FBI Clipper chip program from the 1990s: https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/12/business/data-secrecy-export-case-dropped-by-us.html https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/12/business/data-secrecy-exp... > "Mr. Zimmermann developed the software as part of his personal campaign to make it simple and inexpensive to send scrambled messages. Using such software is not restricted or illegal within the United States, but export control laws treat the software as a weapon and place strict prohibition on its export. The Government opposes the scrambling because it wants to be able to check on the activities of criminals overseas and hostile foreign governments. The Clinton Administration has retained strict controls on the export of data-coding software, and has been trying to create standards that would make it possible for law enforcement officials to gain access to scrambled conversations, whether by electronic mail or telephone."
hollerith 4y ago
Since the Pentagon started paying MIT to develop the technology during WWII, there has probably never been a time of no restrictions by the US government on the publication and the export of radar technology. If you want to inquire into the effects restrictions on radar technology have had on US competitiveness, there's no need to look for lessons in the history of restrictions on a very different technology.
- kragen 4y ago
  probably the effect restrictions had on radar technology 50 years ago when they were trying to restrict the export of (guessing) high-power radio amplifier tubes and ultra-low-noise amplifiers will be different from the effect restrictions have today when they are trying to keep people from explaining to each other how passive radar works and very similar to the effect they had 30 years ago when they were trying to keep people from explaining to each other how cryptography worked disclaimer, i'm not related to krakenrf

photochemsyn 4y ago

It does seem comparable to PGP and the whole FBI Clipper chip program from the 1990s: https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/12/business/data-secrecy-export-case-dropped-by-us.html https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/12/business/data-secrecy-exp... > "Mr. Zimmermann developed the software as part of his personal campaign to make it simple and inexpensive to send scrambled messages. Using such software is not restricted or illegal within the United States, but export control laws treat the software as a weapon and place strict prohibition on its export. The Government opposes the scrambling because it wants to be able to check on the activities of criminals overseas and hostile foreign governments. The Clinton Administration has retained strict controls on the export of data-coding software, and has been trying to create standards that would make it possible for law enforcement officials to gain access to scrambled conversations, whether by electronic mail or telephone."

hollerith 4y ago

Since the Pentagon started paying MIT to develop the technology during WWII, there has probably never been a time of no restrictions by the US government on the publication and the export of radar technology. If you want to inquire into the effects restrictions on radar technology have had on US competitiveness, there's no need to look for lessons in the history of restrictions on a very different technology.

kragen 4y ago
probably the effect restrictions had on radar technology 50 years ago when they were trying to restrict the export of (guessing) high-power radio amplifier tubes and ultra-low-noise amplifiers will be different from the effect restrictions have today when they are trying to keep people from explaining to each other how passive radar works and very similar to the effect they had 30 years ago when they were trying to keep people from explaining to each other how cryptography worked disclaimer, i'm not related to krakenrf