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It's interesting that someone who wrote a tool called "Encryption for the masses" also happened to be involved in illegal crimes. I don't mean "people who care
by rgoulter 8y ago
It's interesting that someone who wrote a tool called "Encryption for the masses" also happened to be involved in illegal crimes.
I don't mean "people who care about privacy etc. are criminals". But I can imagine a moral-panic of "but criminals write such software", and it doesn't undermine the value of using such software.
- lawnchair_larry 8y agoFor what it’s worth, the story seems to be that he was out of writing said software before having the ideas for criminal enterprises. He was supposedly rather spiteful of freeloaders after releasing E4M, and went after the TrueCrypt authors in particular. It’s very Breaking Bad.