After Action Report of the First Crypto War

[Ryan Carboni]

The ISDN standard was first defined in 1988.
Five years later the Clipper Chip was proposed.

The result of the First Crypto War was Status Quo Ante Bellum.

Everyone has celebrated the lack of encryption as a victory?

To who would this serve?

The ISDN standard itself is a curious thing, according to a /wikipedia/
article on caller ID spoofing, it is rumored that Paris Hilton hacked into
Lindsay Lohan's voicemail. Around the same time that the NSA began
warrantless wiretapping? The NSA did have input on the 2G cipher, so why
would they be okay with increasing the arbitrary nature of the world?

Afterall, privacy for the sake of privacy and freedom for the sake of
freedom is sort of pointless. Personally I'm against tyranny, as a result
of personal experiences, even thought about how Tor could be improved. But
all tyranny is simply the arbitary whims of a tyrant, nothing more.

The NSA seems to be achieving control for the sake of control... but seems
to be doing so in a way that would blind the other government organs to
crime?

Why is the world structured the way that it is, and to who does it serve?

The problem with writing an after action report of the First Crypto War is
that apparently everyone involved are idiots or shills, and the only
arguments that ever convinced me were by the academics who supported the
clipper chip.

And then a few academics found that there is a problem with the Clipper
chip protocol, the 16-bit hash was insecure. Apparently the NSA cannot
write good protocols. Should've been a bigger scandal, it'd be like a
trillion dollar project to build airplanes that cannot fly.

Thus no logical conclusion can be formed as of this time, unless one is
willing to entertain rumors about the Deep State.
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