Ketchup.
September 26th, 2001
Phil Zimmerman, author of PGP, sets the record straight.
Ah, a convenient English reference to The Art Of War.
Argh! Don’t you people know that “if encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will be able to use encryption?” Seriously, no terrorist is going to be bound by a “ban on ‘uncrackable’ encryption”, and no lawful (and therefore weakly-encrypted or backdoored) American will be safe from the possibility of information theft.
Look, just don’t come crying to me when your credit cards all get stolen.
As usual, Fred Rogers has the answer.
Frankly, I’m frustrated by the fact that the President can’t speak extemporaneously. At all. Take a look at any of Giuliani’s press conferences in the last several days; even his “prepared remarks” are dlivered with candor, honesty, and energy. The missives coming from the White House are robotic by comparison.
In regard to the banner headline, Bastards!, there was an excellent point made on MetaFilter:
American friends of mine have criticised UK press beause they reckon it becomes difficult to separate fact from opinion. I’m torn between agreeing and arguing that what they take for fact in their own papers is simply opinion in different clothes [...]
