The interesting thing in retrospect is that the pro-crypto faction seems to have won. These days anyone that actually needs cryto can get it and use it. The amount of useful intelligence that a government can get from passive monitoring is constantly decreasing. Entities like the NSA have to concentrate on stuff like meta-data as they can be sure that most of the interesting content is unavailable to them. Signals intelligence is quickly becoming technologically obsolete. So the situation that the Clipper chip supporters feared back in the day has become real.<p>It would be really good if the NSAs of the world would just accept this and stop doing evil in their desperate attempt to survive.