[Cryptography] Privacy, Code, and the Future

[Peter Gutmann]

Andrew Lee <andrew at joseon.com> writes:

[Political stuff, sorry, but I felt I had to respond]

>This case, and its verdict, makes writing open source code that enables
>privacy a crime.

No, it just enforces existing laws that take a dim view of creating and
running a criminal's money-laundering system.  If they'd created and run, say,
a privacy proxy rather than a money-laundering system used by criminals then
they wouldn't be in the mess they're in.

Peter.