[Cryptography] Boing Boing pushing an RSA Conference boycott

[ianG]

On 14/01/14 20:35 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:

> I am sure that a lot of arguments were played on both sides with wormtongue
> types telling both sides to stick to their guns. And too much of it has
> worked.


Yep.

> That is the real crime here. Instead of protecting the country and its
> allies against the threat of attack against an infrastructure that is
> brittle, they were actively sabotaging efforts to make it robust.


Yes.  And it's soooo easy to do with a WG/committee.  IMHO, if they had
decided to do the opposite (make the products strong) they would have
had a very hard time of it.



iang