Crypto Blamed for US terrorist attack - World Exclusive

[David Hansen]

On 12 Sep 2001 at 17:20, Bruce Tober wrote:

> And would restricting crypto have given the authorities a change to
> stop these acts? By Steven Levy NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE

The answer to this is fairly obvious, no. So-called security measures have not worked in the past 
and are unlikely to work in the future. They simply give the impression of doing something which 
the gullible can use to comfort themselves.

Instead of attacking technologies like encryption, whose good far outweighs the harm they can 
permit, governments should be looking at what causes people to do such things.
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