[antiRepublicrat]

And don’t forget making our companies less competitive since they could only ship products with 40-bit encryption while foreigners’ products could ship with anything.

I understand the reason for export controls, but there was a point where the encryption controls did more harm than good, and that point was crossed years before the controls were dropped.

[gondramB]

>>And don’t forget making our companies less competitive since they could only ship products with 40-bit encryption while foreigners’ products could ship with anything.

I understand the reason for export controls, but there was a point where the encryption controls did more harm than good, and that point was crossed years before the controls were dropped.<<

Export controls also work better for missiles etc than for tiny pieces of computer code. There used to be nerd-popular tee shirts with encryption code on them and a warning that the shirt was legally munitions.