Apple: Don't Use iTunes To Make Nuclear Weapons

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Whew, I'm glad the iTunes End User License Agreement stipulates this.

You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons.
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Most likely this is required for them to sell outside the USA ... the government used to have all kinds of restrictions on selling computers during the Cold War ... the Patriot Act has probably expanded these ... it also protects them from frivolous lawsuits since you know if someone did somehow use programs on iTunes to build a weapon, there would be lawyers lining up to sue Apple ... sounds like a typical "motherhood and apple pie" clause to me ;)
 
It's ITAR/DDTC related.

If you do any work at all with any DoD or sub-contractors, you must pay your ITAR tax (about $2700/yr min, for small businesses), and have disclaimers about your products use, and control who your products/services go to.

It's a bad joke, that only hassles honest businesses and has no effect on the international traffic in arms restrictions. If you sell office supplies to Northrup, you have do the disclaimer.
 
Welcome to the comedy and missile design podcast, our guest today is Mike Birbiglia.
 
Now, would you consider a Justin Bieber album as a Weapon of Mind Destruction (WMD)?
 
Would we be liable if our information they provided the NSA was used to create these weapons? :eek: :p
 
Every underground WMD builder worth his (or her) salt knows you use Zune for that.

No one ever expects Zune.
 
I guess this means we are safe from the government using the apple map for guided missiles?
 
Or possibly terrorist were hiding messages inside meta tags inside music on iTunes and uploading them for download to other terrorist.

Same M.O. as the Russian spies who were embedding secret messages and data in jpg images.
 
Reminds me of the South Park episodes and the ridiculous Apple license agreements.
 
At least we won't have to worry about anything like Castle Bravo, where the actual product was several times more powerful than expected.
 
One of the most classic "Hold My Beer and Watch This!!" episodes in American History. Nobody was far enough away when it went off.
 
The first thing that came to mind was someone hiding nuclear secrets by encoding the hidden data encrypted into an audio file. Steganography at its weirdest.
 
So if they listen to music using an Apple device or iTunes while creating one of these items that would count i assume...
 
The physics are now well known by any country who wants the math.

It's the materials, and access to materials that is stopping rogue states.

Look, North Korea has never come out with anything significant in the way of technology, and now they have ballastic missiles and warheads. They didn't invent them from scratch, they bought/stole the tech.

China has had the US W-80 warhead for quite a while now. We know they stole it. We caught them red handed (sic).
 
Well does Apple realize that the people they are selling Itunes to are that dangerous that they have to stipulate steps so they wont produce any weapons of any kind, does Itunes cause that effect or has in been in some study where they end up seeing the amazing result of Itunes resulting in weapons of mass destruction.

Or is this just another prelude to war on some country god know where when they bypass the EULA and that ofcourse means weapons of mass destruction.

Or is that Itunes will drive you insane and thus becoming unfit to handle any kind of weapons ?
 
Well, it is a known fact that good guys use Apple stuff and bad guys use PC.
 
This is actually really old news, but still very funny. It's actually ridiculous all the political BS stuff that can/has happened that caused something crazy like this to be added. I blame lawyers. Somehow, it all boils down to some silly legal stuff.
 
Apple.. i love my ipod ipad and iphone... but only after i jailbreak the shit out of them, fortunately that voids the warranty so in essence, i dont give a shit, i wonder if they have a centrifuge app so i can being my quest of making a nuclear warhead and wiring the trigger to fucking candy crush.

Top o the world ma! lol...
 
They haven't even figured out a way to release incremental patches for iTunes. I'm pretty sure that nuclear secrets are safe.
 
the nuclear physics podcasts that i listen to on the way to work are illegal?
 
So no N/B/C... can I still use it if I'm making a laser powered by the chemical excretions of uranium-eating bacteria (if I can find some)? :)
 
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