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The key difference between those technologies and this is that industrial production hardware (centrifuges or specialized biological equipment, etc) are needed
by airza 11y ago
The key difference between those technologies and this is that industrial production hardware (centrifuges or specialized biological equipment, etc) are needed in addition to specialized knowledge of the topic at hand. These additional requirements make export controls a lot more enforceable, and why you can, say, send regulators to the site of a nuclear engineering facility and get a reasonable answer about if they have sent nuclear materials to another country.
With infosec this would be basically impossible, since the specialized knowledge and the equipment are both non-physical and intimately entwined.
- oracuk 11y agoThis is not a practical distinction with regard to the legislation. A word document describing the specification for an export controlled technology is as prohibited from export as the implementation. Having the word document on a laptop you take to another country is as much a breach of the law as shipping a centrifuge.