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A cryptographic key for Blu-Rays. The MPAA used to send out C&Ds and DMCA takedowns left and right to hide this code.
I remember when this Streisanded hard on Digg. Good times.
Instructions how to build a nuclear bomb.
They have been so very illegal during the very first years of the internet that the scanning of content by police and 3 letter agencies was invented especially because of that.
Then many people made fun of the fact, for example by putting fake hints into the footers of their e-mails or forum posts, and maybe this was the beginning of all memes.
War plans. Classified information in general will cause some trouble, but mostly for the person who leaked it. War plans, on the other hand, will be recovered by any means necessary, up to and including lethal force without warning.
Or accessing it if you have a security clearance. I’m not allowed the look at any of the documents Snowden leaked. Because even though they are easily obtained they have not been declasified. I don’t have a need to know or the necessary SC.
“Pornography” was illegal to own. Things like abortion information or anything mentioning homosexuality was pornographic.
Literally some of the 34 things Trump was convicted of has to do with this!
So it’s illegal, but nothing comes of getting convicted. No actual consequences.
Got it.
Only if you have money and/or power, tho. If you’re just some guy, you’re 100℅ fucked.
When the first DVD cracking util was released, DeCSS, it violated the DMCA and people were getting sued and threatened with felonies for sharing it. Very quickly people figured out loopholes to make it an archivable creative work, like putting it on tshirts and encoding it as a prime number: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime
I had a green DeCSS shirt. It was awesome. I ditched it while coming over the border.
I remember an mp3 going around where a guy turned it into a song, complete with the chorus, “I don’t like the DMCA.”
Damn, I came to post about the pirate pride flag but you beat me to it
Having info on the heliocentric solar system could land you in a dungeon or worse back in the day.
child pornography would fit this description
High level leaks of classified material is the first example that comes to mind. The raw Wikileaks data, for example, was widely accessible and easily found by anyone with a quick search, and yet possessing that material was technically illegal, because it was never declassified.
You’ve been banned from /r/warthunderforums
Julian Assange has something to say about this.
Edward Snowden has something to say about this.
Reality Winner has something to say about this.
Chelsea Manning has something to say about this.
Woodward and Bernstein had something to say about this.
No doubt. It being illegal doesn’t mean it wasn’t morally justified and right in most cases. Just means it took more courage and personal risk to do the right thing.
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For a while it was illegal to export Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP from the US.
FTP servers in the US removed it for fear of legal action.
So I imported it from a University in Scotland. 😉
Not just PGP, but any encryption strength above a certain level was considered “munitions” from a legal standpoint. Because of this, finding a windows Ssh client was a PITA for quite a while.
Wait does imply that other encryption is broken since what would it matter if you used encryption greater than something the government allowed you to
Nah, this was ages ago. I don’t remember the exact encryption strength, but it was pretty low, even by yesteryear standards. This was a remnant from when cryptography was ruled by whichever government could find the biggest autistic savant.
I’d say classified documents if you don’t have the clearance and process to legally possess them
In the US it’s illegal to grow poppy if you know what it is
Only the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. The rest are just fine.
They can’t prove I know what it is tho. 😏
“What do you mean I had to know because I was making heroin? You mean my calming sleepy flower juice from those cool flowers I found?”
The little seeds on bagels?
Yup
But…why are bagel seeds illegal to grow? And why aren’t bagel producers getting in legal trouble?
nice try! you can’t prove that I know anything!
So much. I mean that’s what the book burning was all about. There’s blacklisted authors. There’s state secrets. It might be information that’s legal only for certain people. I mean, if we’re being pedantic, it’s illegal for you to have information about me if I’m not giving it to you.
