[81847] in Cypherpunks
Re: e$: Skins vs. Shirts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Sun Jun 15 10:55:11 1997
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970615122126.008e4e64@pop.pipeline.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 10:09:24 -0400
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
At 8:21 am -0400 on 6/15/97, John Young wrote:
> ... Sounds a bit Kallstromish...
> Surely Homer hasn't been hanging with the CT-hypers.
>
> ...an inflation of
> terrorist-spin to whatever feeds nightsweats of monsters coming to
> Ballmer our babies -- of flesh, markets or surveilling features.
>
> .......slightly Dilberted with lonely-guy
> infowar & -love games of fantasies of what will never be. ...
>
> Recall Mitnick's find on The Well, Shimomura, the telcos and the feds -- lots
> of empty data and wannabe-prattle.
>
> In that case, the Feds and the victims conspired to script a film to make
>the
> nothingness seem valuable, ...
>
> Not that NSCP would sink to that kind of RSA Schwartau TLA insecurity.
Wow. I actually understood all that...
The scent of the cogs is unmistakable hereabouts.
;-).
Cheers,
Bob Hettinga
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