[48120] in Cypherpunks
Re: "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Fri Jan 26 04:43:03 1996
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 01:40:08 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
At 02:47 PM 1/25/96 -0500, Perry wrote:
>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?
These days, I'd be happy with "Gentlemen only read _each others'_ mail"....
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# the government, not the other way around....
