monomania
12 hours ago
Slight aside, I remember reading a post here on HN; the poster said they created an astronav system for use with webcams and published the code on github, only to receive on knock on their door a little while later from somebody who explained that this code in fact violated ITAR restrictions and they needed to remove it.
ahazred8ta
3 hours ago
Astronav systems have expensive moving parts that aren't very githubbable. There was an SDR software defined radio passive radar project that got taken down. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
vegadw
12 hours ago
3eb7988a1663
11 hours ago
Would that hold up in court if the person were willing to challenge it? That seems a clear cut violation of that person's speech, but I guess anything for "national security".
schiffern
8 hours ago
US secrecy laws hold up in court. Just ask any contractor who accidentally brought home a classified document or three (and their name doesn't rhyme with Bonald Bump).
Think that's an unfair restrictions on speech? Just wait until you hear about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_secret