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There was the RSA t-shirt which supposedly could be classified as a munition because the source code on the shirt would provide a high enough level of encryption:

http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/shirt/uk-shirt.html

PGP released a really nicely bound version of their source code typeset in an OCR font that they exported because a book would theoretically fall under the First Amendment:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_in...



Instructions to produce a nuclear bomb also fall under the First Amendment.

There was a contradiction in the laws. That's hardly novel or unprecedented. The higher courts pretty much spend all day dealing with contradictions in laws.


The design is not the hard part. Obtaining the proper fissiles is.




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