[48322] in Cypherpunks
Re: Denning's misleading statements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Sun Jan 28 00:02:03 1996
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: allyn@allyn.com (Mark Allyn)
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 00:02:53 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199601280025.QAA24212@mark.allyn.com> from "Mark Allyn" at Jan 27, 96 04:25:20 pm
Mark Allyn wrote:
| I would like to make a suggestion that D. Denning; others
| who are pro-escrow/clipper; and some of you folks here on
| this forum get together for a debate.
Why bother? Denning's position is that we'll go away. By
deploying remailers, PGP, and other pro-privacy technologies, we
change the terms of the debate, and we change the facts that they must
deal with.
Write code, not rants. I wrote a mixmaster installer script
recently to make installing a Mixmaster easy. (You can get it by
sending me a message with a "Subject: get mixmaster".) I'm working on
code to allow a Mixmaster to only send to other mixmasters, and local
users. This would allow people to covertly run a Mixmaster, avoiding
the headache of having anonymized messages come from your site.
Now and then, debating with Denning and the like is fun. But
she's a statist, and I'm not. We aren't going to see eye to eye on
this stuff, so rather than responding, with detailed arguments,
respond with code that does new & nifty stuff. A GUI version of
premail would be cool, as would a key management utility for handing
PGP keyrings and webs of trust.
Adam
--
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
