[81862] in Cypherpunks
Re: Impact of Netscape kernel hole
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Sun Jun 15 18:16:29 1997
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 17:36:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com>
To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Cc: "David E. Smith" <dave@bureau42.ml.org>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970615204748.006ecaac@pop.pipeline.com>
Reply-To: Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com>
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, John Young wrote:
> That's the theme, hey, hey, of the Denver meet of global leaders on
> June 20. Could it be that that's what the Silicon chiefs went to DC to plan
> last week while speechifying contrarily to CNN, C-SPAN and Declan.
>
> Surely, though, bountifully trusty PGP is not party to this G-10 globalization
> of crippled crypto, or at least not its Chief Technology Officer, right?
>
> BTW, Declan's spin on national affairs is starting to smell of pontification
> to the
> masses, classis sign of "if only you knew what I've been let in on."
> Shimomuraism,
> that, empty data.
Really? Can you point to examples? I certainly don't mean to be.
Though I do learn a lot of things I can't write about directly. I had
dinner last week with a senior White House official and an FTC
commissioner and a bunch of other folks. The condition of the invite was
not reporting on what was discussed. Yesterday I spent the afternoon with
folks including a Supreme Court clerk and a Federal judge. Friday evening
I went to a party with a bunch of Republican heavyweights where we talked
about what the Senate leadership is doing with the crypto bills.
If I come across as arrogant or stand-offish, call me on it. But, geez, I
cover this stuff full-time and then some. Sometimes I *do* know stuff that
isn't public. If it's interesting enough, I pursue it, verify it with
folks who can talk on the record, and then write about it.
-Declan
