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		jevinskie on June 19, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Customer: Apple Store denied me iPad for speaking ... These crypto export laws (while better than they were in the 90s) are silly given that crypto approved for top secret material (AES with large keys) is pervasively available on the internet.

tikhonj on June 19, 2012 [–]

I think this isn't about exporting cryptographic software so much as about not trading with certain countries (e.g. Iran, Cuba or North Korea) at all.

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