Congress mulls crypto restrictions in response to attacks

Bram Cohen bram at gawth.com
Fri Sep 14 02:32:16 EDT 2001


On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Bill Frantz wrote:

> So the honorable gentlemen are proposing unilateral crypto disarmament?  Or
> perhaps a world where many governments can read the business plans and
> strategies of US companies?  Or perhaps a world where the terrorists
> themselves can read the travel plans of their targets?

Preliminary indications are that the terrorists communicated on perfectly
ordinary cell phones - it's dubious that they used any crypto at all.

-Bram Cohen

"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"
                                        -- John Maynard Keynes




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