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psykovsky on Nov 3, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Intel subsidiary fined for unlawful export of soft...

> The rest of the world looked at the US policy on encryption with wide-eyed disbelief due to the horrifying ignorance that just had to lie behind it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism

Estragon on Nov 4, 2014 [–]

Back in Australia in 1994 or so, I clicked on a download link for PGP without really reading the warnings, reading them during the download, and then wondering when the US SWAT team was going to swing through my window.

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