Bush Lightens Supercomputer Export Restrictions

MrZeebo writes "According to a story on Yahoo! News, Bush has finally decided to lift the Cold War-era restrictions on how fast an exported computer can be. Now, computers as fast as 195,000 MTOPS (up from 85,000 MTOPS) can be exported to countries such as Russia, China, and Pakistan."

Comments

Super...

[the Man in Black]

...circumvent the use of encryption on our own shores (Magic Lantern) as well as digitally eavesdropping on all Internet traffic (Carnivore)...give a software company notorious for creating and distributing exploit-laden software power to further abuse it's monopoly, and now we're selling supercomputers overseas. That's just great.

The only comfort I can take is the fact that I didn't vote for that idiotic fuckstick. Small comfort indeed.

Bush blows it again

[Anonymous Coward]

First he uses an undeclared war to stomp on our civil liberties, now he's our selling high end technology so his business buddies can make some more money. I can't wait to hear what the military is going to say. They view selling our high tech as the same as selling arms to the enemy.

Re:Interesting, considering....

[DullTrev]

Anyone know what the impetus behind this move was?

Money.

Load of crap

[t_allardyce]

I saw the title and thought it must be a typo - "Bush Restricts Supercomputer Export" Then i read the post and thought "omg! has bush done something _good_ how is that possible?" then i read the article and realise that i never knew there were restrictions, and that it was an idea dumber even than crypto export laws. Why doesn't America understand that they are not the rulers of the world, that there are manufactures, engineers and programmers outside the US who are just as good.

If a country wants nukes all they have to do is buy them from the US, Russia or China, interesting isnt it, how weapons don't have export restrictions...