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by diffeomorphism 238 days ago
It would stop in your country but not globally. That means your country loses all expertise and will be much worse off to defend itself.

Case in point: In 2007 Germany passed a "hacking law" (ยง202c). On its face, it was supposed to prevent black hat work. Except it very predictably also did enormous damage to security research.