[CrackMonkey] Another global networked filesystem

[Rick Moen]

begin  Paul J Collins quotation:

> I guess the reasoning behind the restrictions on binaries was that
> they felt binaries are harder to ``audit'' than source.

Actually, this is an artifact of Daniel J. Bernstein, The World's
Greatest Programmer<tm> (http://crackmonkey.org/faq.html#ANSWER23)
continuing to prevail in each successive government appeal of his 1996
court victory against the U.S. Department of Justice (see:
http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/Crypto/Crypto_export/Bernstein_case/), in
which he kept establishing more strongly with each additional victory
that he had a First Amendment right to export his freely-distributable
crypto source code.  Commerce Dept. "voluntarily" allowed last January
that freely-distributable, no-royalty crypto source code (only) would
not be embargoed, as a fig-leaf to hide the fact that they got their ass
kicked by a single, stubborn programmer (with EFF help), instead of
waiting for their policy to be forcibly changed by court order. 

GBS:  "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable
one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man."

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