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in a manner of speaking that is a feasible concept [e.g. paperclip]

Are the humans working on current dual-use tech dual-use humans? The current ITAR-restricted algorithms are also developed by humans.

you might try to make a joke

but US courts had done rulings which where basically like that

A popular T-shirt among computer scientists featured the RSA algorithm, along with the label "WARNING: This shirt is classified as a munition and may not be exported from the United States, or shown to a foreign national."

...then there's the tattoos of rsa lines that were non-exportable (ITAR)

His public papers are mostly white hat focused so it would stand to reason that he has lots of black hat research that is not published.

That's not how it works in academic computer security research. If a researcher has good attack papers, there are plenty of top venues that would accept them.

Please don't speculate from a position of ignorance.