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Justice, Commerce Depts Announce Creation of Disruptive Technology Strike Force

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I don't really get this announcement. How precisely are they going to take the portion of IOT designs still made in the US away from China so it can't monitor minorities? How precisely are they going to stop Russia or Iran from downloading software?

While I hesitate to read the article for you, I'll provide direct quotes. Nobody mentions IOT. Here are the technologies mentioned:

    End users of national security concern seek technologies, including those related to supercomputing and exascale computing, artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing equipment and materials, quantum computing, and biosciences.

And then you ask how they will precisely do it. That's probably beyond the scope of an initial presser, but for your consideration here's what they say:

    The strike force’s work will focus on investigating and prosecuting criminal violations of export laws; enhancing administrative enforcement of U.S. export controls; fostering partnerships with the private sector; leveraging international partnerships to coordinate law enforcement actions and disruption strategies; utilizing advanced data analytics and all-source intelligence to develop and build investigations; conducting regular trainings for field offices; and strengthening connectivity between the strike force and the Intelligence Community.

Artificial Intelligence patents are available to everyone and can just as easily run on a distributed network of IOT devices nearer victims. The paragraphs you are quoting are exactly what they did in the 1990s when supercomputers were relevant, so the press release only really mentions more of the same despite diminished significance of old strategies.

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[1] - https://archive.ph/Wrnbx

With the nice addition of banner ads.

I'm not seeing any banner ads, though I use ublock [1] and I do see uBlock restricting mail.ru. I also have .ru blocked on my router so maybe that is why I am not seeing it.

[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

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