SR-71's "R2-D2" Could Be Key to Winning Future Fights in GPS Denied Environments

Slight aside, I remember reading a post here on HN; the poster said they created an astronav system for use with webcams and published the code on github, only to receive on knock on their door a little while later from somebody who explained that this code in fact violated ITAR restrictions and they needed to remove it.

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ahazred8ta 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Astronav systems have expensive moving parts that aren't very githubbable. There was an SDR software defined radio passive radar project that got taken down. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

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vegadw 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Reminds me of https://hackaday.com/2022/11/19/open-source-passive-radar-ta...

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3eb7988a1663 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Would that hold up in court if the person were willing to challenge it? That seems a clear cut violation of that person's speech, but I guess anything for "national security".

	▲	schiffern 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		US secrecy laws hold up in court. Just ask any contractor who accidentally brought home a classified document or three (and their name doesn't rhyme with Bonald Bump). Think that's an unfair restrictions on speech? Just wait until you hear about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_secret