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Do you also remember the researcher Philip Zimmerman’s hack to get around the cryptography-is-munitions edict? The source code to PGP was published by MIT Press
by tmoertel 1y ago
Do you also remember the researcher Philip Zimmerman’s hack to get around the cryptography-is-munitions edict? The source code to PGP was published by MIT Press as a book that just happened to be in a format suitable for OCR. That framing made it into a First Amendment issue, one the researchers were confident they’d win in court.
https://archive.org/details/pgpsourcecodeint0000zimm https://archive.org/details/pgpsourcecodeint0000zimm
- pjmlp 1y agoMy university had that book, I think it can be used as a weapon actually, given its weight.
- paufernandez 1y agoI wonder what kind of gun uses books as munition.
- cratermoon 1y agoa librarigun
- lesuorac 1y agoCan't you stick about anything heavy to use as munitions for a cannon?
- pjmlp 1y agoHuman arms, projecting it into someone's else head as hard as they can. :)
- __alexs 1y agoThis one https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Junk_Jet_(Fallout_4) https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Junk_Jet_(Fallout_4)
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- tclancy 1y agoWas a t shirt too. I regret not getting a hold of one back then.
- somat 1y agoAs far as legal hacks go I always liked xkcd joke on the matter. https://xkcd.com/504/ https://xkcd.com/504/ If it is a munition the US government has limitations on it's actions controlling it covered under the 2nd amendment to the constitution. In reality it nor the first amendment(freedom of speech) hack probably would not work. The limitation was on exporting strong crypto, not using or importing it. It was stupid and impossible to control. But I would guess any charges would be espionage(illegal speech) and smuggling(illegal goods). regardless of how you packaged it.