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Cory Doctorow / 6:01 am Thu, Mar 31, 2016

Hungarian ruling party wants to ban all working crypto

The parliamentary vice-president from Fidesz -- the largest faction in the Hungarian government -- has asked parliament to "ban communication devices that [law enforcement agencies] are not able to surveil despite having the legal authority to do so." Read the rest

Cory Doctorow / 6:29 am Sat, Mar 12, 2016

Obama: cryptographers who don't believe in magic ponies are "fetishists," "absolutists"

Obama's SXSW appearance included the president's stupidest-ever remarks on cryptography: he characterized cryptographers' insistence that there is no way to make working cryptography that stops working when the government needs it to as "phone fetishizing," as opposed to, you know, reality. Read the rest