Bruce Schneier: Every time you use encryption, you're protecting someone who needs to use it to stay alive.
Elissa Shevinsky: It's clear that while I may have missed the drama of the '90s, I won't be able to escape the cryptowars redux of the 2010s.
Bruce Schneier: The Second Crypto War is going to be harder and nastier, and I am less optimistic that strong cryptography will win in the short term.
Moxie Marlinspike: If there's any good news, it's that GPG's minimal install base means we aren't locked in to this madness, and can start fresh with a different design philosophy. When we do, let's use GPG as a warning for our new experiments, and remember that "innovation is saying 'no' to 1000 things." In the 1990s, I was excited about the future, and I dreamed of a world where everyone would install GPG. Now I'm still excited about the future, but I dream of a world where I can uninstall it.
Marcy Wheeler: It's not just hippies and hackers making these arguments. It's also someone who, for most of his career, pursued and prosecuted the same kinds of people that Jim Comey is today.
Shane Harris: In another bit of theatre, FBI officials gave every reporter a three-pack of Oreo Double Stuf cookies. The creamy center filling, Chappell said, gets its brilliant and consistent whiteness from the chemical titanium oxide. Last year, a jury in California convicted two men of stealing the chemical's formula and selling it to -- who else? -- China. The thieves pilfered the recipe from U.S. chemicals giant DuPont and passed it off for $20 million to Pangang Group, DuPont's state-owned competitor, who had previously tried to buy the recipe without success.
Andi Wilson, Danielle Kehl, and Kevin Bankston: It seems like we may once again be on the verge of another war: a Crypto War 2.0. But it would be far wiser to maintain the peace than to begin a new and unnecessary conflict. There is no reason to repeat our previous mistakes.
Ted Unangst: There was a proposal to change the error message from "Permission denied" to "Sorry" to match su, but not implemented. "doas" will not apologize for your failures.
James Comey: I'm not sure they've really tried.
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