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		djcapelis on May 29, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US cybercrime laws being used to target security r... I think my favorite example of things going the other way was when we more or less won the battle on export control laws which restricted the distribution of cryptography.

mikeash on May 29, 2014 | [–]

I momentarily forgot about that! You're right, though. Netscape International Edition, with 40-bit crypto for SSL. Good times.

slashdotaccount on May 31, 2014 | [–]

https://xkcd.com/504/

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