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name: Munitions
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archetype: Freetekno
swag_score: 5
date_added: "2025-03-12"
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# Munitions

## Visual Elements


Black t-shirt with white text with the head text being “WARNING”, followed with what looks like a barcode on the bottom part.

## Cultural Context

The Munitions T-shirt was created by Adam Back and other cypherpunks in the 1990s to protest US export restrictions on cryptographic software, which was classified as munitions under ITAR. Wearing the shirt -- which printed actual encryption source code -- was a form of civil disobedience, since exporting the shirt technically violated arms trafficking laws.

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## Justification

The original cypherpunk protest shirt. Printing encryption code on a t-shirt to challenge arms export laws is the most literal example of code as free speech in history.
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**Dominant Colors:** White, black
**Archetype:** Freetekno
**Swag Score:** 5
**Date Added:** 2025-03-12
**Sources:**
- http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/uk-shirt.html
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Munitions_T-shirt_(front).jpg