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I lived in Syria before the war and stuff, even back in 2010, because of the US export laws Syrians were banned from downloading the most basic shit like Java runtime, adobe flash player, and Nvidia gpu drivers, Skype, Messengers like Yahoo etc...

This type of internet "stupidity" is in every government DNA lol

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>US export laws Syrians were banned from downloading the most basic shit like Java runtime

That's still the case for many encryption products from Oracle. You have to register and sign T&C which say you will not export this .jar to a banned country. It's been like this since I remember... 2005 maybe?

Thank $GOD for Bouncy Castle.

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