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Re:MIT Press Bookstore: Loading Dock Sale by tomh on Saturday October 17, 2009 @04:52AM (#886785)
Ah, the loading dock sale. I remember those well. Some of the things I found there in the past included discounted copies of SICP, 'The Little Schemer', and the entire source code of PGP (yeah they put it in a book, don't know why). There was a companion book for the PGP code that I always kept an eye out for, but was never on sale.

There's also a lot of economics/sociology books on sale, so you can pick up esoteric things on a number of subjects. Just go, go, go.

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Re:MIT Press Bookstore: Loading Dock Sale by Luc on Saturday October 17, 2009 @05:40AM (#886810)
> the entire source code of PGP (yeah they put it in a book, don't know why)

Because PGP used keys larger than 40 bits, which meant if was classified as 'munitions' (!) under US export regulations. Zimmerman got around that by publishing the source code as a book, export of which is protected under the First Amendment. You were supposed to OCR it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_in...

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