LNP504 The politics of intellectual shame

5229.844 - 5248.159 Meredith Whittaker

And there's a deep discomfort that dates back to 1976, when Diffie-Hellman were trying to publish their paper, introducing public cryptography, and the US government was trying to suppress it, trying to say, don't publish this, right? And then, you know, but databases weren't quite big enough, networks weren't quite big enough or ubiquitous enough for it to matter matter.