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hawski
on Feb 2, 2022
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North Korea hacked him, so he took down its intern...
Encryption was considered a weapon previously, which resulted in an export ban.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_...
SeanLuke
on Feb 3, 2022
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No. Encryption was considered to be a
munition
. Wikipedia is being loose in its terminology and could benefit from some revision here.
rjsw
on Feb 2, 2022
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Also resulted in lots of us having to lie on our Visa Waiver forms on entry to the US.
kmeisthax
on Feb 2, 2022
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...and the parent post's argument was already made by xkcd:
https://xkcd.com/504/
boomboomsubban
on Feb 3, 2022
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North Korea is qualified as a "rogue state," so it's still illegal to export encryption there.
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