STRONG CRYPTO DOESN’T KILL PEOPLE; PEOPLE WITH STRONG CRYPTO KILL PEOPLE

“We can count on the fact that the spread of strong encryption is going to mean that lives are going to be lost.”

Robert Litt, principal associate deputy attorney general at the US Department of Justice, engaging in some hyperbolic flourishes to attack encryption stronger than that which a bored college student could break, Wired News, 8 June 1998