phil zimmerman found himself under federal investigation for violating export controls.nd when that pgp upload occurred of that strong encryption law enforcement, the intelligence community and a variety of other players in policy-making circles were very concerned. why because with that technology terrorists could use it, organized crimes syndicates could use it and child predators and there was a parade of horribles and congress decided ultimately not to break encryption and to dumb it down so to speak but congress took note of the concerns in 1994 for law enforcement act which gave access to digital communications under valid law enforcement requests because of unbreakable encryption arriving congress had to enact a digital copyright act in 1998 and talk about the affirmative defenses that would go to digital rights management that included strong encryption, so congress responded and helped to create a framework not through one am omnibus law but series of laws and when i look that chat gbt was launched into the wild, when you see law enforcement community and there'