On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 09:05:15PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
Not just this, but they did it with an unacceptable amount of warning.
Right. Terrible customer focus, to use some buzzword phrase. Even putting political issues aside, I'd have a very tough time recommending their products to anyone after this week-or-two discontinuation. It would be like the Well abruptly deciding to kill my well.com address with a week's notice, after I've had it since 1995, and rely on it for professional and personal reasons.
(Seven days, versus the past couple of years of obvious trends. It doesn't take much neural processing to see that their sudden re-focussing on some bullshit product like "cookie management" is a response to the new climate of fear.)
Maybe, maybe not. I've had numerous reports from reliable sources who have said that the change was in the works before Sep.11. Maybe the attacks speeded it up.
So, NAI is abandoning PGP (no great loss, actually), ZKS is abandoning Freedom (ditto), and some crypto luminaries are falling all over themselves to support police state measures.
Some possible good news, for a change. Sen. Judd Gregg, who said he was introducing legislation to restrict crypto, seems to have a change of heart. My article will be up at wired.com tomorrow. -Declan