Re: US Congress already discussing bans on strong crypto

[Ian Darwin <ian@darwinsys.com>]

>    Some politicians and defense hawks are warning that extremists such as
>    Osama bin Laden, who U.S. officials say is a crypto-aficionado and the
>    top suspect in Tuesday's attacks, enjoy unfettered access to
>    privacy-protecting software and hardware that render their
>    communications unintelligible to eavesdroppers.
>
>    In a floor speech on Thursday, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-New Hampshire)
>    called for a global prohibition on encryption products without
>    backdoors for government surveillance.

And these protohominids think that bin Laden is meekly going to update his 
system after they install buggared encryption software in the later versions.

Fscking idiots.