Comment on How can a military buy fighter jets that the seller has kill switches for?

• yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because encryption is a weapon of war (according to the US government, seriously look up why encryption tech cannot be exported even as open source to us enemies), breaking their encryption and trying to install your own software would be an act of war.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes. Until pretty recently Java didn’t contain unlimited strength encryption algorithms by default because of this/not getting around to updating

    en.wikipedia.org/…/Java_Cryptography_Extension

    bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-7024850?focusedId=119…

    I’m not gonna dig deeper, but it seems like the actual policy change was as late as 2011 based on the comment, but they didn’t get around to changing it for another few years.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Once more into the breach, dear friends.

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