[49449] in Cypherpunks
Re: POTP gets good press
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed Feb 7 15:17:11 1996
To: bryce@colorado.edu
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, storer@pcinews.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Feb 1996 12:56:50 MST."
<199602071956.MAA17880@nagina.cs.colorado.edu>
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 15:10:01 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Bryce writes:
> The Sun Observer -- "An Independent Journal Devoted to the
> Sun and Compatible Markets" -- ran an article in the Feb 96
> issue entitled "New technology eliminates need for keys to
> encrypt e-mail messages".
[...]>
> Am I right in thinking this is utter unmitigated
> bullsh snake oil?
Probably. Almost all such claims end up being crap. I haven't seen the
article yet so I can't say for sure, but 99% of the time these
companies have no idea what they are doing and feed the gullible lines
of utter bull. I don't know how so many of them survive in the market.
Perry
