[48109] in Cypherpunks
Re: TOP_tap
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Horowitz)
Fri Jan 26 02:52:10 1996
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 02:41:13 -0500 (EST)
From: Alan Horowitz <alanh@infi.net>
To: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
Cc: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>, frantz@netcom.com, rsalz@osf.org,
cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199601260130.UAA01330@nrk.com>
> This *is* a real problem. They take very highly skilled geniuses and
> tell them "no one will ever know what you've done.." & their morale does
> suffer...
>
> Just suppose YOU discovered (say) a new factoring method... and
> could only watch others getting Nobel prizes.....
Maybe they think that anyone who is worthy of knowing - works at NSA.
As Wittgenstein noted, "where the masses also drink, all wells are poisoned".
