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Yeah, you're likely correct. I didn't catch this at first due to my immediate feeling of threat simply for having published a few tools which use high-level cryptography libraries.


Wind River seems to have been dinged for completing commercial transactions with organizations that happened to be on the BIS export blacklist. You're not going to get fined for posting code to Github.


But Wind River is only guilty of exporting the same already public information which I may be and it's quite possible that anyone on that "BIS export blacklist" could feel free to obtain my code.


No, I do not think that accurately captures what the USG is fining Wind River for.




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