Security Researchers wary of Wassenaar Treaty. Discriminating export restrictions could severely hamper international digital security. Lobbyists and none-technical political forces could have clipped the wings of security researchers and could have hampered security for the global community and especially outside the "Wassenaar Global Empire" with the proposals as they are now for CFAA.
What does it bring if you have a computer with a Tb of memory and you cannot work it because of the slow Celeron processor it has inside, you'd better have a swift processor on a computer with an external hard disk?
Or what if you run privacy risks in parts of the world because of encryption export restrictions, even worse if by technical incompetence the encryption is served the wrong end up.
It is like old Rome revisited, the Romans were producing cheese with the use of rennet and germanic/slavonic tribes outside the limes (bounderies) of the empire they made their "ost"/"ser" passing milk through nets made of the Galium plant, also known as catchweed or goosegrass, later they adopted to the new Roman ways of life and produced real cheese (word taken from Latin caseus), with Wassenaar rules "caseus" would never have been exported. Now we even produce kosher and halal cheese.
Read here:
https://threatpost.com/security-researchers-wary-of-proposed-wassenaar-rules/112937 Article author = Michael Mimoso.
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