On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 11:05 +0000, David wrote: > Hi All, > > This is slightly tangential, but a Canadian was prosecuted and > convicted in the USA for trading with Cuba. > > http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0426/p06s01-woam.html > I think there's two definitive cases to look at there. The first was the hell that Phil Zimmerman was put through for publishing the PGP source code on Usenet. The second was the nonsense surrounding respectable encryption levels for https - and thus the development of ecommerce. Both relate to the US classing encryption as munitions. This may be less of a driver nowadays, but it will influence what pressures are brought to bear on organisations like SourceForce who have operations and assets within the continental United States. On the flip side, you've people in the US government want to help activists and dissidents within countries like Burma and Iran. -- Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil@xxx.xxx.xxx> Wikinewsie.org
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