Re: Netscape Days
That was nothing to do with browsers, it was encryption in general, and the idiocy went right back to the origins of modern encryption in the 1980s. Netscape only hit the tail end of that era, in which most cryptographic advances avoided the US for obvious reasons.
That is, most, but not all. And it seems the #1 hero of the resistance back then has fled his country more recently (damn, where was El Reg when that story broke)?
I think the US still has one thing going for it: people who really care about privacy and are prepared to get off their backsides and do something about it, and a court process that gets so bogged down that all sides reach a settlement. Like DJB last time around.
Perhaps this story is an echo for our times of Zimmermann's original release of PGP?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
