Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
by 0xEF on Friday October 17, 2025 @06:03AM
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Not that I agree with it, but I do see the logic. The word "munitions" can be replaced with "materials," since it literally refers to materials used for warfare. That isn't necessarily limited to things that shoot or explode. It's a brilliant bit of pedantry if you step back and think about it.
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Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
by amelius on Friday October 17, 2025 @07:34AM
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So it can refer to people and what is in their minds too?
Anyway I'm not surprised. This kind of pedantry is what lawyers do for a living.
Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
by motorest on Friday October 17, 2025 @07:50AM
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> So it can refer to people and what is in their minds too?
You're being needlessly obtuse. If you bother to learn about the topic, you'll understand it's about distributing software.
Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
by cratermoon on Friday October 17, 2025 @10:03AM
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Yes kind of. The "born secret" doctrine says all knowledge related to the creation of nuclear weapons, ranging from nuclear fusion to the production of fissile material, as “born classified".
The doctrine has never been tested in court as no case involving it has gone to trail.
Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
by PaulHoule on Friday October 17, 2025 @11:31AM
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I've definitely figured some things out about nuclear weapons and proliferation that I've never told anyone because of that doctrine. I met a real nuclear engineer at a conference and had dinner and he told me about how he was concerned that people would nick Np237 from a fuel reprocessing system to make nuclear weapons and I pointed out that it was OK to talk about that because I'd seen it in the literature.
Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
by hollerith on Friday October 17, 2025 @10:05AM
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Yes, it can, and I thank God because I wouldn't want more nuclear powers than what the world already has.
Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
by necovek on Friday October 17, 2025 @04:20PM
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If Ukraine did not retire their nuclear weapons... (Russia was surprisingly all too happy to oblige)
All I am saying is that I am not sure it's so simple: sure, if everyone had them, the risk that there is some lunatic crazy enough to actually put them to use rises; but it also potentially stops a bunch of wars, especially bigger countries going after smaller ones.