I remember reading about Hal Finney about a year ago, and then about the cypherpunks and all, including about PGP. And I was surprised to see how recently an en

I remember reading about Hal Finney about a year ago, and then about the cypherpunks and all, including about PGP. And I was surprised to see how recently an encryption standard was deemed a weapon, and sharing the algorithm was deemed exports of weapons, a punishable offense, particularly if say, an Iranian would come to read the algorithm on some forum post! That meant jail-time, treason! Ridiculous, I thought surely we'd be a bit more enlightened about these things in the 1990s. It felt almost comical, as if it was a joke. Now this. Two consumer companies we all know and love, implement an encryption standard by default that has been openly available to the world for many years, and we already see talk of preventing it through congress. It feels like we're back in 1993. Just gonna leave this here: http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/how-would-you-like-this-wrapped.jpg http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/how-would-... How would you want it wrapped? Protect the kids or anti-terrorism. They literally wrapped this one up twice, mentioning both the terrorism and the pedophiles. Sigh.