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I think it's clear that this is very uncoincidentally an extremely timely award. The average person may have no idea, but we are in the middle of a cryptowar[1]

by Kinnard 11y ago

I think it's clear that this is very uncoincidentally an extremely timely award. The average person may have no idea, but we are in the middle of a cryptowar[1]. [1] http://reason.com/archives/2013/03/12/the-second-great-crypto-war http://reason.com/archives/2013/03/12/the-second-great-crypt...

kchoudhu 11y ago
Yeah. Individual achievement aside (and I'm not minimizing it in any way, shape or form), I'm pretty sure this is the CS profession's way of telling the FBI to get bent.
- pklausler 11y ago
  As much as I like to believe your theory, I suspect that a big award like this probably has a longer lead time than the recent Apple/FBI brouhaha.
  - bsharitt 11y ago
    The current Apple/FBI business is just the latest flare up in conflict that started when Apple started encrypting phones by default.
    - reitanqild 11y ago
      The conflict started way before that. My reference is to when encryption was considered munitions and a bunch of people printed, shipped and scanned source code to get around the rules.
r00fus 11y ago
I wonder if the timing is coincident with potentially a 2nd Clinton coming to the whitehouse?
- Kinnard 11y ago
  Nice!