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Symantec Restricts Crypto Export
PhilK writes "Symantec is now refusing to sell LC5 (the Windows password cracking tool, previously from @stake) to anyone outside of the USA and Canada, claiming new Homeland Security laws. Symantec declined to field questions on the rationale for its policy and whether it applies to other products." From the article: "Symantec's restrictions recall the dark days of the crypto wars when users outside the US were not entitled to buy products featuring strong ciphers. These rules, relaxed by the Clinton administration and following a long running campaign by cryptography experts and net activists, are once again rearing their head. Symantec's response to our reader (below) suggests the policy was imposed on it by the US government."
It's a nice rant, too bad you went off half cocked and one quarter informed. Of course like most Dubya rants it's based on a pile of shit fed to you by the mass media.
Anyway, when your Dubya bashing fervor has cooled enough perhaps you could be bothered to go and actually LOOK at the rules.
Here's a hint, they haven't changed since 1999. The list of countries you can export to hasn't changed either.
The only thing that has changed is that Symantec is now just as ill informed about the law and lazy as you are.
America is pretty damn close to being irrelevant anyway. If we re-ban crypto and these technologies, it will simply give some developing nation a new economy.