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The US is all about selective enforcement, and the undesirable hacker type and their unpleasant "cryptography" is likely a higher priority for munitions enforcement than an irritable white guy with an AR-15 at the supermarket, because only one of them actually threatens the status quo.
I think the important word here is "white"
> For reasons associated with U.S. export restrictions, no cryptographic security of any kind is likely to be included in the original sources https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22687#c1 Creepiest thing with seeing this ticket (again?) is noticing that the first comment is about that is used to be illegal to write anything with cryptographic security in the US and sell/give it to the outside world. https://…
Particularly noticeable during the iOS app store[1] submission process (Android's is somewhat more lax[2] leaving the liability firmly with individual developers)
[0] https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/all-articles/15-policy-gui...
[1] https://help.apple.com/app-store-connect/#/dev88f5c7bf9
[2] https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
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Any signatory to the Wassenaar Arrangement, which includes the entirety of North America, Europe (including Russia), Australia, India, and Pacific Asia (minus China) must consider cryptographic technologies to be munitions for the purposes of export. Now, these restrictions have been considerably loosened to the point that the export isn't really controlled, but international law still considers it a munition. The US…
Is establishing a HTTPS connection internationally exporting a munition, using a munition, or none of the above?
Good for them, but PGP is essentially dead for any non-technical zealot users. S/MIME is better supported and easier to use.
I tried to use S/MIME. I really did. Went to those sleazy web pages of companies that issue certificates, was told I'd need to pay for various certificate products. Tried a free option. Tried to load the cert onto my YubiKey, tried using it in Apple Mail…
The conclusion: it is by no means easy or well supported, and requires you to deal with those sleazy cert-celling companies.
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The US is all about selective enforcement, and the undesirable hacker type and their unpleasant "cryptography" is likely a higher priority for munitions enforcement than an irritable white guy with an AR-15 at the supermarket, because only one of them actually threatens the status quo.
I think the important word here is "white"
Flagging and downvoting this doesn't make it false!
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Ah, the good old days when I could just plug my IM services into one desktop app. I miss those days very much. Now I use three Electron apps on a typical work day.
Matrix bridges do that for me today! Currently using IRC and Telegram bridges, thinking about adding Slack. Sadly, Electron-based Element is still the best Matrix client by far.
Thunderbird has the only calendar I know that has a "multiweek" display as opposed to (well, in addition to) the utterly retarded month view that exists in every other GUI. We've been doing electronic calendars for how long now? Why are we still using a paradigm from paper based calendars? At the beginning of a month I can see three weeks ahead, but at the end of the month I can see three weeks behind. It frustrates…
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I see your point, but as a non-American who's flooded with videos of random Americans walking around supermarkets carrying semiautomatic rifles, I'm not sure what you mean with "tightly regulated militia".
It's a joke. The text of the 2nd amendment is slightly ambiguous. Many people (myself included) believe that the intent of it was to protect citizens' right to arm themselves, but only in the context of being a member of a state-run/regulated militia. Unfortunately SCOTUS has continually widened the scope of 2A over the years. > as a non-American who's flooded with videos of random Americans walking around supermarke…
Unlike european countries, the american frontier was a dangerous place where every household needed a gun. Armed citizens existed regardless whether there was a militia or not.
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OpenPGP is the standard, gnupg is a implementation.
Right, so why talk about the standard when you mean, specifically, GnuPG? If you want an explanation of why GnuPG is dangerous for anything besides email, let me know. But parent post was very specifically NOT about GnuPG- it was about OpenPGP.
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Any signatory to the Wassenaar Arrangement, which includes the entirety of North America, Europe (including Russia), Australia, India, and Pacific Asia (minus China) must consider cryptographic technologies to be munitions for the purposes of export. Now, these restrictions have been considerably loosened to the point that the export isn't really controlled, but international law still considers it a munition. The US…
Side note: don’t call the countries in the European Union “states”. They’re sovereign countries that have committed themselves through treaties to the Union, not a US like government body