I remember the crypto wars of the 1990s. I played my own small part in 1992: http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/cacm92nov.html http://www.shub-internet.org/brad

I remember the crypto wars of the 1990s. I played my own small part in 1992: http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/cacm92nov.html http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/cacm92nov.html I was a member of DC CypherPunks, with Declan McCullagh. I got to meet Whitfield Diffie. I saw EFF and EPIC and other such organizations get created. I was just a tiny fly on that wall, but it was clear what we were up against at the time, and how things have just gotten worse since then. Back then, the crazies were worried about these things called RFID strips that were supposedly embedded in all the money, so that the government could track you wherever they wanted. Today, we all carry around phones broadcasting Bluetooth or wifi MAC addresses or RFID tags to tell us where we lost our keys, and we give them so much more information than could ever have been gathered by the claimed RFID strips.