For many reasons, I don't like Biden. As if his stances on the War on Drugs were not so bad as to make any limited government conservative or libertarian's skin crawl (hint: he's one of the key leaders who brought the War on Drugs into many innocent people's lives), his views on IT and surveillance issues are really troubling. It's with absolutely not hyperbole and a straight face, that I say that if Benito Mussolini were alive today, he would probably find an incredible amount of common ground with Joe Biden's political views as they are the perfect synthesis of capitalism and socialism with a pragmatic, centralizing twist. Compared to him, John McCain really isn't that bad.

One of the issues that Biden has been passionate on in the past is the issue of encryption getting into the hands of the common man. PGP, the first serious encryption software for the masses, was created as a response to legislation that he cooked up. Biden should scare the hell out of libertarians and conservatives because he is both anti-firearm and anti-encryption, which means that he is for government supremacy both on the use of force and ability to communicate with others in secret. If those come together, they're the foundation of a modern police state.

So, in honor Biden, go download a copy of TrueCrypt. It's free, open and available for Windows, Linux and MacOS X. Think of it as the equivalent of going out to buy a firearm in honor Obama's opposition to gun rights and the Fenty regime's refusal to abide by the ruling in District of Columbia vs. Heller.