The software was classed as munitions and one needed an arms dealer’s license to publish it, including online. The creator of PGP published the full source code as a book, as these are covered under first amendment rights.
The software was classed as munitions and one needed an arms dealer’s license to publish it, including online. The creator of PGP published the full source code as a book, as these are covered under first amendment rights.
That’s not new, often you can look at events boomers claim to have witnessed and find actual accounts completely different, like soldiers returning home from Vietnam and getting spit on and called baby killer, feminists burning bras.
You look back further and there’s so much discrepancy between accounts of the civil war and then reconstruction, and then second rise of the kkk during these events and just 2 decades later.