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Re: [Cryptography] Boing Boing pushing an RSA Conference boycott
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ianG)
Tue Jan 14 13:28:03 2014
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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:59:25 +0300
From: ianG <iang@iang.org>
To: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>,
John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
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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
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