Blaming Encryption

EisPick writes: "Just as a previous generation wrestled with whether or not to blame physicists for The Bomb, there are some misguided folks who are blaming Phil Zimmermann for the ability of terrorists to communicate confidentially. He tells the Washington Post, 'It has been a horrific few days.'" Meanwhile, John Gilmore has posted far and wide a call to mirror encryption code outside the United States, since export regulations are making a comeback.

Comments

Re:Was crypto used?

[jilles]

You are of course right. The system is not democratic. Particularly the way of counting the votes and the procedure (or lack thereof) when a conflict arises is contributing to this. The only democratic outcome of the previous election would have been a reelection. Now the outcome of the election was determined by a puppet of the brother of the guy who won.