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

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

Ever have a day you just wished you hadn't got out of bed?

[entropic-om.livejournal.com]

That's almost as idiotic as some of our legislation!
How horrible!
Hopefully, it's a no-go!
>:|

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

They got the RIP ("we-can-spy-on-you") Act and CJB ("no-right-to-peaceful-protest") passed, this is unlikely to be outside their scope.

[zz]

oh yes.

perhaps people around the world should protest at governmental evilness by flying radio-controlled model aeroplanes into their MP/etc's houses.. :)

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Pretty much anything this Government proposes becomes law. The chances of a backbench revolt over an issue as obscure as this are basically nil.

And crypto research becomes illegal in yet another country, sigh...

[ex-meta.livejournal.com]

So apparently I will need a license from the UK government before I can distribute software to UK residents? (Since I'm a UK 'subject' and the software might end up in the hands of non-UK residents...)

Mmm, interesting. It'll be kind of a pain for me to set up a system to prohibit UK users from downloading, but I guess if that's what the government wants...

I wonder if I can attract the attention of someone high up in IBM? This could make our internal KM systems very complicated...

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.