[48029] in Cypherpunks
Re: "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Miszewski)
Thu Jan 25 16:47:19 1996
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 22:44:49 -36000
From: Matt Miszewski <crypto@midex.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199601251947.OAA16586@jekyll.piermont.com>
On Thu, 25 Jan 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
> Phill refers to the man who said "Gentlemen do not read each other's
> mail", (Henry L. Stimson) as a twit.
>
> I highly disagree. In some ways I regard him as our patron saint
> (although the man was actually far from saintly and later as a member
> of the Roosevelt cabinet adopted an opposite policy of aggressive
> signals intelligence.)
>
> Why is he our patron saint? He was a government official coming out
> against invasion of privacy. Isn't that what we are all after, in the
> end? The reason we deploy cryptography is to assure privacy for
> all. We often refer to those who listen in on conversations
> (regardless of who they are) as, in some sense, our
> opposition. Therefore, is not Stimson's remark in closing down
> Yardley's "Black Chamber" to be praised rather than attacked?
The crypto relevance of this post is tenuous at best :-). Please keep
your comments to relevant code or technical discussions of crypto. This
is *not* patronSaintPunks! Come on!
For the humor impaired *this is a joke*. Not flame bait. Just trying to
get Perry to lighten up a bit.
>
> Perry
>
Matt
