only two gubernatorial challengers in the country to outraise the incumbent during the last fundraising quarter — but that Deal is running worse. That’s a consequence of the 2 inches of snow that managed to paralyze metro Atlanta at the end of January and a scandal around fundraising for his 2010 campaign that have hurt his poll numbers. In a sign of how seriously the GOP is taking Carter, the Republican Governors Association spent a reported half-million dollars last month on an attack ad against the Democratic nominee.

Nunn, meanwhile, is seen by Democrats as their most promising nonincumbent candidate of 2014, with the best shot at flipping a GOP Senate seat. A win by her could mean the difference between keeping the chamber or not. Waiting out thepatent on public key cryptography and enforced it
against companies using it (say, for running a secure webserver) unless they
used their closed-source library.

So using crypto in the US was made difficult, and yet the internet was fine
and most people got the crypto they wanted (except, ironically, defense
contractors.)

Although the new law sucks, everything will probably be fine there too. The
Internet is pretty resistant to the sort of damage this law could create.

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tptacek
Export regulation had a lasting impact on everyone's security, because the
mechanisms used to support it, even for people who had strong crypto available
to them, were themselves vulnerable. See for instance FREAK.

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simonblack
When the Clipper fiasco happened in the States about 30 years ago, it didn't
take long before the US started being left behind in crypto work by the rest
of the