[48636] in Cypherpunks
[noise] Re: Escrowing Viewing and Reading Habits with the Governmen
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Murphy)
Tue Jan 30 07:19:36 1996
To: Alan Horowitz <alanh@infi.net>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jan 1996 15:12:31 EST."
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Reply-To: packrat@tartarus.uwa.edu.au
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 20:15:45 +0800
From: Bruce Murphy <packrat@ratbox.rattus.uwa.edu.au>
In message <Pine.SV4.3.91.960129150914.6284C-100000@larry.infi.net>,
Alan Horowitz wrote:
>
>
> > > Do you really think that the FBI foreign counter-intelligence squad has
> > > nothing better to do than keep a database of who is reading Che Guevara
> > > memoirs?
> >
> > Heck, I remember this was a big issue about 15 years ago. Try asking
> > someone who was active in library science in the late 70's, early 80's.
>
> I did. They said you're wrong. Shall we start a CP flame-war of
> unattributed allegations from librarians who will recall what *they
> thought* the FBI is interested in?
Should we instead start a CP flame war involving unattributed
allegations from librarians who are being monitored by aliens who will
recall crop circles in the microfiche?
I presume all this interest was brought about by several (relatively)
recent uses of the (alleged) information about FBI monitoring of
libraries?
What the hell, I wanted to own a copy of Applied Cryptography anyway.
--
Packrat (BSc/BE;COSO;Wombat Admin)
Nihil illegitemi carborvndvm.
