[Gllug] Eric S. Raymond.

[Bruce Richardson]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 12:45:38PM +0100, Gordon Joly wrote:
> http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/11/2048256
> 
> And then read this...
> 
> http://adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/9/12/102423/271

Good points well raised.  The 10pm news on Radio 4 was dominated by a
story about how encryption helps terrorists and how laws to force people
to use Government-approved encryption (i.e. key escrow) would help the
fight against terrorism.  They were using completely bogus statistics
and had some bogus expert telling them that it would take todays
computers longer than the lifespan of the universe to decrypt messages
encoded using standard encryption software.

-- 
Bruce

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
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