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Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by michaelmrose on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:27PM (#18294482)
People are stupid. Seat belts that appeared to work but didn't actually keep you safe would be illegal even if labeled.
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Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by jhall1468 on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:29PM (#18294509)
You die if your seatbelt doesn't work and companies charge for seat belts. You don't die if your encryption is weak and you aren't paying for it.

But otherwise, super useful analogy.

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Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by ddalex on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @02:02PM (#18294827)
> You don't die if your encryption is weak

This really depends on the business you're in.

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Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by pavritch on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @05:31PM (#18296610)
The laws were different back then. The State Dept changed the rules a decade or more ago, I forget when, and AES 256 has been the default cipher ever since. Encryption is listed as a munition. I would have gone to jail if I put anything greater than 40-bit encryption on the shareware sites. Look what happened with Phil Z with PGP.
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Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by michaelmrose on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @10:00PM (#18298022)
The law was changed a year before your story takes place.
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