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by bifrost 2521 days ago
ITAR has been in place for decades...
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Things had been getting better though, rather than worse. When was the last time someone had to publish cryptographic software by printing it on a stack of paper?
I don't think the lack of someone being convicted of ITAR violations means we're doing better TBH.

People are only going to complain about this after normal people start going to jail.

Trump has been in place for 2 years.

You seem not to see the true damages he and his team did to, for a start, transatlantic alliances.

And that this is not headed the right way for the next decade either.

Since I remember the 1990s, I don't believe you to be correct.