> That's also a lesson on how a closed economy (and open ones too, to some extent) can collapse based on a single actor controlling the rules. That's fair to learn.
We've had a serious problem with policy-making in this country for a loooooong time, stretching right back to when RIPA was drafted, nearly three decades ago.
I love the concept. I think the trick to being successful with a project like this is cracking the user experience in a way that makes it powerful enough to be truly useful, while keeping it simple enough that a child can build (scr)apps (c.f. Super Mario Maker).
Making it possible to lookup and store data in a spreadsheet (maybe using something like the Google Sheets API) could unlock a huge amount of use cases.
It also enabled cipher strength "step up". Back during the '90s and early 2000s (I'm not sure when it stopped, tbh), the US government restricted the export of strong cryptography, with certain exceptions (e.g. for financial services).
If you fell under one of those exceptions, you could get a special certificate for your website (from, e.g. Verisign) that allowed the webserver to "step up" the encryption negotiation with the browser to stronger algorithms and/or key lengths.
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