[107889] in Cypherpunks
Re: Scott McNealy - remarks on privacy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Wed Jan 27 15:53:40 1999
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 21:27:01 +0100
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
At 08:34 PM 1/27/99 +0100, Anonymous wrote:
>
>Scott has been outspoken on the encryption issue against the
>United States Government and has told them that the encryption
>genie is out of the bottle and to "get over it."
Unless there were large gaps in what he said and what was printed,
there is no way to make such a conclusion from the text given.
>In summary, "Scooter" (McNealy) is 100% correct in his
>observation. an observation about reality is not an endorsement!
WRONG WRONG WRONG! When asked about a *specific* product
being fielded by Sun, not only did he comment that privacy was a
farce, but his "Get over it" statement effectively said, "There is no
privacy *and* *we* *don't* *care*." "Get over it" implies that you
shouldn't expect any privacy, now or in the future. That he was
making the statement in direct response to a question about a Sun
product means that he may as well have been saying that there will
be no privacy considerations in said product.
>Someday, if I am lucky I'll get to work with someone of his
>caliber.
I don't make any comments to the integrity of the CEO or the company,
but I think you have a lot of balls to come to a forum such as this in
some sort of spin control effort for a company who seems to have
turned its back on privacy concerns, if their CEO's opinion can be
a gauge of the mood of the company. Nothing short of a full
retraction by McNealy of his comments will even begin to placate me,
and even then, I'll probably think twice when dealing with Sun in the
future.
