Reply to post: If you don't learn from history, you are doomed to repeat it.

FBI Director wants 'adult conversation' about backdooring encryption

simmondp

If you don't learn from history, you are doomed to repeat it.

"If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy" [the original quote] often bastardised as "If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption".

https://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html

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