Those laws were at best useless and at worst damaging. They worked in a Cold War environment, but their time was at an end.
They didn't work because other countries all over the world were getting the ability to program complex systems too. Linux was started and grew overseas when the controls were in full force. Also, basic textbooks of things such as cryptography allowed all programmers in the world to make effective encryption. This mean that everyone could have encryption, although we forbade its export.
So, US companies couldn't export their high-encryption products overseas, while the foreign competitors had such encryption. They could compete in our market, but we couldn't compete in theirs. The regulation was damaging our businesses with no real positive effect on security.
BTW, the champion of those restrictions that you love was Al Gore, the same guy who wanted to have the keys for all encryption in the country.
So you not only constantly defend free technology for China and Iran (and whoever else wants it), now you're defending Clinton for removing the laws from our books that restricted it.
I'd say my work here is pretty much done, you and the flamer can whine some more if you want, but the record now clearly shows where you stand, and trading further insults simply isn't necessary.
Gold Eagle Out