Math denialism: crypto backdoors and DRM are the alternative medicine of computer science
by Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing on (#150AH)
My latest Guardian column, The FBI wants a backdoor only it can use - but wanting it doesn't make it possible, draws a connection between vaccine denial, climate denial, and the demand for backdoors in secure systems, as well as the call for technologies that prevent copyright infringement, like DRM. (more")