Declan wrote:
If anyone chooses to try this act of civil disobedience, let me know and I'll write about it. But be warned: the Department of Commerce has approximately 60 special agents who enforce violations of export rules. These are federal police officers, stationed in field office around the U.S., with badges and arrest power, trained at FLETC in Georgia. They don't have a sense of humor about these things.
Well, yes, that's what BXA flaunts, but I wonder if the encryption regs are a high priority compared to the cases which are actually pursued which deal with truly threatening technology that every congressperson loves to fearfully hate. Yapping Chihuahua crypto is not up there yet, I suspect. True, there's a batch of agents being trained to work specifically on encryption, and with the total of crypto exports now exceeding $half a billion, it may be cost and politically effective to set an example by pounding one or two neo-crypto-Zimmermanns, especially as the year's hearings rumble, troll and slumber. Still, Adam's signature RSA-taunt has been on our Web site for months, terminating each of his exemplary stream of messages on low perfidy in high places, to no effect on BXA's eagle eyeball. Adam's 3-liner was also once part of Peter Junger's legal filings http://jya.com/pdj4.htm (DoJ downloaded the evidence) until we were ordered to excise the tiny terrible Perl so that Peter's noble bite of the hand of god would be clearly his stiletto fangs and not confused with Sir Adam Bulldog's ass ripper. Now, Declan, what would a crypto-miscreant need to do to actually get BXA's fierce kennel of crypto bloodhounds' attention, to make it truly worth everybody's headline read, money, politics, talents and teeth? By Tuesday, when Cindy Cohn sticks her head in the beast's mouth.