Go Gov't
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| Author | Content |
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| chalbersma Sep 19, 2009 12:41 AM EDT |
Ya! Best thing the government's done the Interstate system. unce! |
| jezuch Sep 19, 2009 2:45 AM EDT |
"Go Gov't... get out of the way!"? |
| gus3 Sep 19, 2009 11:31 AM EDT |
Most quickly accomplished on the Eisenhower Interstate System. |
| Bob_Robertson Sep 19, 2009 3:58 PM EDT |
> "Go Gov't... get out of the way!"? Couldn't have said it better myself. I guess lots of people are unfamiliar with what Phil Zimmerman went through after PGP was released into the wild and escaped the borders of the US. We had fun with a Perl script implementing the RSA encryption algorithm in one line as a tagline on email, deliberately violating the International Trafficking in Arms Regulations (ITAR) laws every time one of them went international. T-shirts with the code printed on them, fun stuff. All to demonstrate the absurdity of regulating a mathematical function under the same rules as grenades, machine guns and explosives. The most fun of the political posturing and civil disobedience was when the PGP source code was printed up and bound in books, sold at conferences for people to carry back to their homes and scan in with OCR, so that to stop it the Feds would have to ban a "book". 5 years that guy was hounded, his laptops seized and searched at airports, before they finally gave up. Your tax dollars at work. |
| chalbersma Sep 21, 2009 12:50 AM EDT |
couldn't have said it better Bobby |
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