“I can never remember if it was Sun Tzu or Clausewitz who cautioned not to back your enemy into a corner from which the only way out is over your own corpse, but that is precisely what the tech bros did to nation-states with encryption, and now the nation-states are making their way out of that corner.”
(Poul-Henning Kamp)
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3818307
Mark Dominus
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2026-07-18 19:31:34 UTC
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