US Encryption Ban Would Only Send the Market Overseas (dailydot.com)

Patrick O'Neill writes: As U.S. legislatures posture toward legally mandating backdoored encryption, a new Harvard study suggests that a ban would push the market overseas because most encryption products come from over non-U.S. tech companies. "Cryptography is very much a worldwide academic discipline, as evidenced by the quantity and quality of research papers and academic conferences from countries other than the U.S.," the researchers wrote.

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Re:These guys are morons.

[MitchDev]

No, they aren't morons, they are EVIL. They KNOW what they are proposing is wrong, but they do it anyway. Greed for money and power drives them, bought and paid for by the 1%. In the 70s,80s, 90s, would anyone have dreamed of the trampling of the Constitution that the government does nowadays, using 9/11 as a huge lever to bring in more trampling of citizens rights under the guise of "security"....