Comment by geuis
Comment by geuis a day ago
This smells a lot like the misguided crypto export laws in the 90s that hampered browser security for years.
Comment by geuis a day ago
This smells a lot like the misguided crypto export laws in the 90s that hampered browser security for years.
I hope this time we finally get a Supreme Court ruling that export controls on code are unconstitutional, instead of the feds chickening out like last time
Using 2d barcodes you can fit ~20MB per page. Front and back you could probably fit a model that violated the rule on less than a thousand pages.
Edit: maybe 10k pages
It hampered the security of a lot of things. That wasn't misguided -- that was the point.
China, Russia, and Iran used Internet Explorer too.
And don't forget the amazing workaround Zimmerman of PGP fame came up with - the source code in printed form was protected 1A speech, so it was published, distributed, and then scanned and OCR'd outside the US - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_i...