alt Hacker NewsSome (well, at least one) of us are old enough to have owned one of these:
http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/uk-shirt.html
A t-shirt with a Perl script that implemented RSA encryption strong enough to be technically illegal to export from the US.
(I must sadly admit to being too cowardly/sensible to have taken that shirt to the US in the late 90s...)
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greyface- • yesterday at 11:59 PM
And if you missed the original run, you can buy a reprint from Adam's current company: https://store.blockstream.com/products/rsa-t-shirt
dd8601fn • today at 4:53 AM
DeCSS printed on stuff was a thing for a while, too.
I wore the rsa-dolphin t-shirt all over the place and nobody batted an eye back then, but a dolphin made up of ASCII characters is quite a bit less obvious than the one you linked.
OpenBSD being based in Canada ships strong crypto, but has had a sometimes troubled relationship with certain regimes.
https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#34