Pull a Zimmermann

> I think distros should just do as Phil Zimmermann did, when PGP was deemed "weapons-grade encryption"

While I think this was a fantastic stunt back then, you do realize that this was never actually tested in court? The investigation against Zimmermann was dropped in 1996 without this having ever gone to court. (The same year the executive order was signed that started the process of lifting most restrictions - though I don't know off the top of my head which of these came first.) And even if the book thing had held up in court, you'd still have the issue that PGP was downloaded from US servers from users outside of the US _before_ the book with the PGP source code was printed. Sure, the book showed the absurdity of trying to have this kind of government control, and it was fantastic politics, but in a court of law Zimmermann could still easily have lost just because of the previous downloads where he hadn't yet printed the book.