On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 01:12:37PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi Iain, > > On Sonntag, 20. Juli 2014, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: > > The main one is that there are places in the world you just can't use HTTPS > > for legal reasons [...] > > I'm curious, can you name one?
The United Kingdom when using IPv4 over AX.25 on Amateur Radio. Encryption is illegal because it goes against the self-policing nature of the amateur bands. (I was hoping to actually locate one of the crackpot dictator countries that have laws for the general population but there doesn't actually seem to be much data available on that). http://www.ru.j-npcs.org/usoft/WWW/www_debian.org/Documentation/policy.html/ch-developer.html Note that for packaging, these allowances are made. I do not see why we cannot make the same allowances for accessing a website. Iain. -- e: i...@fsfe.org w: iain.learmonth.me x: i...@jabber.fsfe.org t: +447875886930 c: MM6MVQ g: IO87we p: 1F72 607C 5FF2 CCD5 3F01 600D 56FF 9EA4 E984 6C49
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