Back in the 90s, there were legal battles in the US over software capable of strong encryption. There were scare stories about how terrorists and child pornogra

Back in the 90s, there were legal battles in the US over software capable of strong encryption. There were scare stories about how terrorists and child pornographers would use the technology to evade justice, but people were also wearing T-shirts printed with forbidden code to mock the idea of algorithms too dangerous to share. It was stupid, and I was ashamed of the regulatory state, but we got better. we have not gotten any better. our t-shirt snark has, regrettably, faded.