Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. The sooner people accept this, and build business models that take this into account, the sooner people will start making money again.

Cryptography products may be declared illegal, but the information will never be

It's certainly easier to implement bad security and make it illegal for anyone to notice than it is to implement good security.

The very definition of news is something that hardly ever happens. If an incident is in the news, we shouldn't worry about it. It's when something is so common that its no longer news - car crashes, domestic violence - that we should worry.

Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break.

Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people.

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.