[Cryptography] Boing Boing pushing an RSA Conference boycott

[James A. Donald]

On 2014-01-14 04:51, Joshua Marpet wrote:
> As much as I respect Cory Doctorow's fiction (Little Brother was
> AWESOME!), sometimes he rides a little off the rail in the name of
> publicity, in my opinion.
>
> Even if you want to boycott RSA, the fact is is that a lot of companies
> have paid a lot of money to be at the conference, and sell their wares.
> �It's an important con for lots of small and startup companies. �Do they
> think they'll hurt RSA? �Maybe. �Will they hurt smaller groups that are
> praying very hard to impress some likely buyers? �Probably.

If you associate your product with RSA, you associate your product with 
the NSA, which is unlikely to be good for the sales of your product.