and i was remembering when i was a young staffer on capitol hillé in 1991, phil zimmerman released pgpusenet group and then it quickly found itself into the nascent and growing internet. so pgp stood for pretty good privacy. [laughing] but wha it did is it made encryption, in two and encryption strong encryption readily available to people who might not otherwise get it. however, in 1991, encryption was treated under regulation as amniti -- a munition. it was treated like rocket launchers or when grenadesu needed an export license to push commercial encryption outside of the united states. so by 1993 1993 phil zimmed itself underederal investigation for violating export controls. and when that pgp upload occurred of that strong encryption, law enforcement, the intelligence community, and a variety of other players in policymaking circles were very, very concerned. why? because with that thnoly terrorists could use it, organized crime syndicates could use, child predators. so t horribles that could flow from that. now congress decided ultimately not to break encryption and to dumbt it d