Pentagon vs. Crypto

Simon Janes wrote in to send us a story about John Hamre, US Deputy Secretary of Defense being quoted in wired as saying that no two companies have a "God-given right" to export American Encryption. Update The Wired Article that I was quoting changed to talk about Companies Exporting encryption instead of People Talking Privately. Thanks to the several folks who pointed out the change. It doesn't change much for me though, preventing encryption exporting is just dumb. All it does is make things a pain for us, it doesn't prevent them from having better encryption technology.