Google Gives Free Security Keys to Activists, but Not If You’re in Iran or Syria

>>Google may be simply trying to stay in line with export legislation—it’s not totally clear if providing these devices to people in these countries would violate any US or international embargoes or export laws

It’s understandable that Google’s legal team would look at this and say, embargo laws are hard and this is new tech that involved cryptography so let’s not risk violating those laws and make sure we don’t send our keys to embargoed countries.

Or in other words, let’s not risk helping activists around the rest of world by sending what turns out to be embargoed tech to embargoed countries.