On: Doomed to repeat history? Lessons from the crypto wars of the 1990s (2015) [pdf]

[thematrixturtle]

It's refreshing to see the word "crypto" applied to cryptography instead of cryptocurrency, like the good old days.

[sbf501 → thematrixturtle]

Remember when CSS meant Content Scramble System? Everyone was printing DeCSS onto everything: t-shirts, sigs, hats, mugs.

[marcosdumay → sbf501]

Content Scramble System is a more recent creation than the Cascading Style Sheets. It got the news for a while, but it's not like the web CSS stole the name.

[sreekotay → marcosdumay]

I mean tbf, they were released around the same time (so i agree one did not plagiarize the other) but DVD CSS was likely more widely known first - albeit due to DeCSS

[game-of-throws → sbf501]

And this generations DeCSS is called Reader Mode :)