On 28 August 2012 10:55, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:49:21 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: >>>> >>> Presumably optionally disabled to comply with export restrictions? >> >>Is there really anywhere these days you can send a mainframe to that >>you can't send a crypto processor to? Surely no one in Cuba or Iran >>can order up a zEC12 in any case, even if a handful of cheap GPUs have >>more computing power. >> > I had thought restrictions applied anywhere outside the U.S. and Canada. > But I may be operating on outdated misinformation.
I pay little attention to the details of this stuff. Strong crypto is ubiquitous and cheap, and much of it does not originate in the USA, so efforts to control its export are doomed. Controlling exports of very high end reliable computers, on the other hand, may well be both feasible and effective. > You forgot North Korea. I gave only examples, and the list changes from time to time for political reasons. Does it still include "Taliban controlled areas of Afghanistan", or would it be impolitic to suggest that such areas still exist? Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
