shot over the bow - BIS to control crypto exports anywhere (to ensure backdoor enabled?)

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"Any self-respecting open-source developer will establish anonymity,
develop code, and release it to the world with no authorization
whatsoever.

The code will live or die on its own merit."

~ from the 'Export Controls' section of "Darknet for Beginners"
[[ August 12, 2013 post at
https://odinn.cyberguerrilla.org/index.php/2013/08/12/darknet-for-beginners/
]]

- - Odinn

coderman wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/17/intel_subsidiary_crypto_export_fine/
>
> 
"""
> Wind River Systems exported its software to China, Hong Kong,
> Russia, Israel, South Africa, and South Korea. BIS [Bureau of
> Industry and Security] significantly mitigated what would have been
> a much larger fine because the company voluntarily disclosed the
> violations.
> 
> We believe this to be the first penalty BIS has ever issued for
> the unlicensed export of encryption software that did not also
> involve comprehensively sanctioned countries (e.g., Cuba, Iran,
> North Korea, Sudan or Syria). This suggests a fundamental change in
> BIS’s treatment of violations of the encryption regulations.
> 
> Historically, BIS has resolved voluntarily disclosed violations of
> the encryption regulations with a warning letter but no material 
> consequence, and has shown itself unlikely to pursue such
> violations that were not disclosed. This fine dramatically
> increases the compliance stakes for software companies — a message
> that BIS seemed intent upon making in its announcement. """
> 
> fuck BIS!
> 
> 

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