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News.com: Crypto Doesn't Kill - People Do

Posted by timothy on from the aa*jTYnd8-H//Im dept.

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.

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  1. FUCK PUCK! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Introducing the FUCK PUCK!

    Fuck puck is that cinema device where the bad guy gets a hockey puck in the groin. He's fucked by the puck -- and the puck is the Fuck Puck!

    ...........__----=====----__
    ..-.-.-.-.|..----_____---...|
    ....---.-.|F.u.........c.k!.|
    -..-.--...|__..c.k..P.u...__|
    .............----_____----


    CRYPTO IS GOOD FUCK PUCK!

  2. Get some PRIORITIES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The worst terrorist attack in recorded history occurred just over two weeks ago, and you people are discussing 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? My *god*, people, GET SOME PRIORITIES!!!

  3. kode blew by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    we'll NEVER try to decipher your secret kodes at ScaredCity(?tm?)

    Plus, you could acquire this relevant URL from us (including a year's free hosting), as a result of your interest in the brave gnu world of open/honest, dependable/secure, communications/commerce, &, your ability to follow simple directions.

    don't even try to tell US that you haven't seen these guys, now featuring pictures of the REAL .commIEs

  4. Let's kill suicidal terrorists! by Nicolas+MONNET · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wait, they do it themselves.

  5. Re:Crypto Doesn't Kill - Islamic Muslim Terrorists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    It's YOU and Osama bin Laden who are being intolerant (and you also illiterate) and this is causing wars.

    "So, let us not be blind to our differences--but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."

    Commencement Address at American University, 1963
    President John F. Kennedy

  6. Re:You should learn English and Latin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's VIRUSES, you ignorant fuck!

  7. Re:Crypto Doesn't Kill - Islamic Muslim Terrorists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You can be as tolerant as you like, but if the other guy is a crazy shit-eating lunatic it won't do you much good.

    The simple fact is that Islam is a religion which has conquest at its heart. The basic message of Islam is to convert or destroy non-Muslims... and continue until the whole world is Islamic. Islam is a disease, and the West would be doing the world a favour if it exterminated every single practitioner.

  8. Re:Crypto Doesn't Kill - Islamic Muslim Terrorists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am muslim. I kill you once. I kill you a million times.

  9. Re:You should learn English and Latin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm aware this is flamebait, but...

    Virus is a collective noun. Technically, the use of the virus to mean a single item is incorrect; it means all virus (NOT virii or viruses). But it's come into common usage as a singular.

    One virus.
    Two virus.
    Many virus.
    Code red is a virus.
    Code red and Nimda are virus.

    (Waaay offtopic, I know...)

  10. Re:Crypto Doesn't Kill - Christian Terrorists do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    See, it works both ways. Only it seems that Christianity is winning. .

    You're assuming that the message was written by a Christian... it wasn't. Islam is merely the worst of a bad bunch.