I hate that they put that list like that:
"Private jets full of gold. Missile-guidance systems. Unbreakable encryption. African militias. Explosives. Kidnapping."
One of the things in this list is not like the other.
"Private jets full of gold. Missile-guidance systems. Unbreakable encryption. African militias. Explosives. Kidnapping."
One of the things in this list is not like the other.
- Kidnapping - It's the only action.
- Explosives - It's the only thing that is illegal to make.
- African Militias - It's the only one about using people.
- Unbreakable Encryption - It's the only thing that is used by regular people on a regular basis.
- Missile Guidance Systems - It's the only thing that's not unique.
- Private jets full of gold - It's the only thing most people would trade an arm and a leg for.
doesnt the US restrict import/export of encryption over a certain keylength as well?
Either way, "make", not "export". I'm almost certain it's illegal to export missile guidance systems under ITAR.
I think it's technically still a law that's on the books and the American federal government did try to claim PGP was "munitions" at one point in the 90's, but the feds were skirted by PGP being printed in a book which is protected by the 1st amendment.[0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_i...
Missile guidance systems would probably be illegal to export, though. (You'd have to declare the gold.)
I see you get one joker in your game.
Furthermore, there is no way a private jet full of gold would actually fly. It would be too heavy to succeed in taking off. Gold is extremely dense, almost as dense as lead. You could put gold in a private jet, but it wouldn't be "full of" gold; there'd have to be a substantial amount of unused space for the thing to fly.
For all practical purposes, it is true.
"The one-time pad (OTP) is an encryption technique that cannot be cracked, but requires the use of a one-time pre-shared key the same size as, or longer than, the message being sent. In this technique, a plaintext is paired with a random secret key (also referred to as a one-time pad). Then, each bit or character of the plaintext is encrypted by combining it with the corresponding bit or character from the pad using modular addition."