If the US government declares that encryption software is a munition, so is network software like ping and trace-route. The stuff that you use to manage a network every day is just as offensive as defensive. But we net experts could probably also take out the fiber, for a while, by denying service on its network. It's hard to simulate the Internet for testing. This gives you the sort of nonlinear oscillations that actually happen there.
Every feature added to software is another feature that can be abused.
Give it screen access, and it may abuse the screen. Give it email access . . . We all have some work to do. 22, No.2, April 1997.