[Cryptography] Boing Boing pushing an RSA Conference boycott

[James A. Donald]

On 2014-01-18 04:28, Arnold Reinhold wrote:
 > 3. If I were working for NSA tasked with with disrupting the
 > independent cryptographic community's response to the Snowdon
 > revelations, I'd be hard pressed to come up with a better idea than
 > a boycott of the RSA conference.

Seems to me that the independent cryptographic community's response to
the Snowdon revelations is Jon Callas and Daniel Bernstein.  How does
boycotting RSA adversely affect them and what they are doing?