Why was the NSA so worried about PGP?

In S14 E15 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast, PGP creator Phil Zimmermann explains that his open source code ended up teaching a lot of people worldwide how to do cryptography.

Thus, something that was once treated as a Cold War weapon ended up in the hands of people worldwide and they created new cryptography protocols! 🔐

Take that, NSA!

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