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A comment on Inverview with Evan Ratliff, author of The Mastermind.

Re:Inverview with Evan Ratliff, author of The Mastermind by rgoulter on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @09:02AM (#19378144)
It's interesting that someone who wrote a tool called "Encryption for the masses" also happened to be involved in illegal crimes.

I don't mean "people who care about privacy etc. are criminals". But I can imagine a moral-panic of "but criminals write such software", and it doesn't undermine the value of using such software.

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Re:Inverview with Evan Ratliff, author of The Mastermind by lawnchair_larry on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @10:41AM (#19379097)
For what it’s worth, the story seems to be that he was out of writing said software before having the ideas for criminal enterprises. He was supposedly rather spiteful of freeloaders after releasing E4M, and went after the TrueCrypt authors in particular.

It’s very Breaking Bad.

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