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Re: by hkt on Thursday June 22, 2023 @03:57AM (#36429217)
I'm not sure, but encryption was outlawed entirely in France until 1999 or so: https://www.theregister.com/1999/01/15/france_to_end_severe_...
Re: by getrealal on Thursday June 22, 2023 @04:06AM (#36429292)
I laughed at this part:

>French minister for the economy and finance, Domenica Strauss-Khan, has said she wishes to liberalise

Dominique Strauss-Kahn (they also butchered his last name) is definitely not a woman (but it's a "mixed" name indeed, that both men and women can have).

Back in those days it was also illegal to share radio frequencies used by the military (since comms were not always encrypted; details about frequency and modulation were secret), and a guy got prosecuted for doing just that.