Censorship of research papers

[ciphergoth]

If this bill goes through, I'll have to give the Government my papers to read before I can publish them.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/exportbill.html

Comments

No more Quake, then...

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

From a personal point of view, the fact that, unless I'm reading this wrongly, most or all modern 3D hardware and software (including games) falls under this too is a bit alarming -

4Ad. Graphics accelerators and graphics coprocessors exceeding a "three dimensional Vector Rate" of 3,000,000;

(not sure what this is, but since this document was written in 1996 I suspect a modern GPU exceeds this by quite a way)

4.D.1 "Software" specially designed or modified for the "development", "production" or "use" of equipment or "software" specified in 4.A. or 4.D.

And yes, banning crypto research (or just making it very bloody hard) is very stupid.