News.com: Crypto Doesn't Kill - People Do 259
McSpew writes: "Bravo to News.com for telling the truth about cryptography. They even cited /.'s coverage of Phil Zimmerman's real views on PGP and its possible role in any terrorist acts." On a per-word basis, this may be the best summary of why calls to ban or restrict encryption technology (as with government key escrow, or constrained key sizes) has little to do with enhancing national or world security.
Imminent crackdown (Score:2, Funny)
All for improving the homeland security, of course.
Central Asia tech support (Score:5, Funny)
They could post their encryption concerns to a site http://slashdot.af/index.pl?section=askslashdot for instance. But I don't think the Taliban would let them call the intellectual currency "karma."
Stop this mess ! (Score:4, Funny)
Is this PGP ?
NO !
So why does the crypto=terrorist meme still continues ?
Paradoxically, paper letters are a more secure way to transmit information than the internet...
Re:He's missed the point (Score:3, Funny)