[107492] in Cypherpunks
Re: The Revolution Drops Trou (was Re: Wired Reporter Query...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bram)
Fri Jan 15 01:50:33 1999
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 22:45:38 -0800 (PST)
From: bram <bram@gawth.com>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
cc: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>, coderpunks@toad.com,
cryptography@c2.net, mac-crypto@vmeng.com, jensul@wired.com
In-Reply-To: <199901150340.TAA16720@acid.bpm.ai>
Reply-To: bram <bram@gawth.com>
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Sameer Parekh wrote:
> To set the records straight, the fact that Eric has a cameo in
> Sandy's movie has nothing to do with the fact that Eric was a founder
> of sac.net and Sandy used to work there, and Bob used to sell 900 #s
> to dial-a-porn services.
Oh, I dunno about that. Funny guy, that Bob.
I don't recall seeing Sandy on that set.
> To address your other points -- some of us who were on the
> cypherpunks list in days gone by have chosen to actually create the
> future everyone else on the list merely talked about. Being subscribed
> to the list and actively posting is not an indicator of
> 'cypherpunkness'.
That might be open to question. Eric's recently got a wife, a kid, bought
a house, and basically settled down. He seems a bit interested in making
money at the moment to really care about the political consequences of his
work.
I think sac.net is working on Java stuff right now.
-Bram
