<h1>Banned Technology</h1>

The BIS (Bureau of industry and security) has updated its vast list of embargoed technologies this month. Well over 200 items including ethnicity specific viruses, torture devices and spacecraft have been added.

BIS also maintains a list of denied persons, or people who within non-restricted countries are also banned from purchasing items on the list. You are likely to be pulled yourself if you display any of the 'Red Flag Indicators'

The announcement should raise concerns over transparency and openness. Computers and cameras which are multi-use are also included on the EAR list.

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Any fiction writer would have a field day with this list. I've cherry picked a few just to give you an idea:

Exploding bridge wire (EBW) detonators
Fireworks displays
Frequency hopping development technology
Gas masks
Gold (Au) metal vapor lasers
Graphics accelerators or coprocessors
Lights, search
Optical-electro shutters, Kerr or Pockel cells
Rift Valley fever virus
Robots, radiation hardened
SAW (Surface Acoustic Wave) devices
Spacecraft
Spray cooling thermal management systems (Hiding IED's, tunnels etc)
SQUIDs (Superconducting quantum interference devices)
Supercavitating hydrofoils (using gas to reduce surface friction in torpedos etc)
Surface-effect vehicles (see Caspian Sea monster)
Tanks, austenitic stainless steel (heat treated)
Tempest type equipment (like the BBC use)
Thumb screws
Time interval measurement, electronic equipment for (Aerial laser profiling etc)
Torpedo net (cool).

Export restricted countries are:

Afghanistan EAR ITARd
Albania EAR
Armenia EAR
Azerbaijan EAR
Bahrain EAR
Belarus EAR ITAR
Bulgaria EAR
Burma (Myanmar) EAR ITAR OFAC
Cambodia EAR
China EARb ITAR
Cuba EARa,c ITAR OFAC
Cyprus ITARe
Egypt EAR
Estonia EAR
Georgia EAR
Haiti ITAR
India EARb
Indonesia ITARe
Iran EARa,c ITAR OFAC
Iraq EARc ITARd OFAC
Israel EARb
Ivory Coast ITARf
Jordan EAR
Kazakhstan EAR
Kuwait EAR
Kyrgyzstan EAR
Laos EAR
Latvia EAR
Lebanon EAR
Liberia ITAR OFAC
Libya EARa ITAR
Lithuania EAR
Macau EAR
Moldova EAR
Mongolia EAR
N. Korea EARa ITAR OFAC
Oman EAR
Pakistan EARb
Qatar EAR
Romania EAR
Russia EARb
Rwanda EARc ITARd
Saudi Arabia EAR
Sierra Leone ITARd
Somalia ITARf
Sudan EARa ITAR OFAC
Syria EARa ITAR OFAC
Taiwan EAR
Tajikistan EAR
Turkmenistan EAR
Ukraine EAR
United Arab Emirates EAR
Uzbekistan EAR
Vietnam EAR ITAR
Yemen EAR ITARe
Zaire (Congo) ITARd
Zimbabwe OFAC