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Asked by an Iranian member of the audience if Google will stop blocking Android or Chrome downloads in his country, Schmidt said that the ban was due to US sanc
by naner 15y ago
Asked by an Iranian member of the audience if Google will stop blocking Android or Chrome downloads in his country, Schmidt said that the ban was due to US sanctions on Iran and that "we can't violate US law."
Is this due to crypto within the software or what?
- urdnot 15y agoOne of the products I used to work on at one of my old companies supported a huge number of languages. We were really scraping the bottom of the barrel for new languages to add - every new one was even more obscure than the last. But we never supported Farsi - IIRC, it was because simply developing a product explicitly intended for consumption by an embargoed country is considered illegal.
- abraham 15y agoEXPORTS TO IRAN - In general, unless licensed by OFAC, goods, technology, or services may not be exported, reexported, sold or supplied, directly or indirectly, from the United States or by a U.S. person, wherever located, to Iran or the Government of Iran. http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/iran.txt http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/D...
- cube13 15y agoThat has to be the reason, because any software(libraries or executables) that contains SSL encryption code is covered as a weapon under export rules.
- lotu 15y agoThat stopped being the case years ago.