[81894] in Cypherpunks
Re: Declan as a Budding Washington Insider
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Bradley)
Mon Jun 16 13:41:30 1997
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 11:26:52 +0000 ( )
From: Paul Bradley <paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
To: declan@well.com
Cc: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970615232644.25854A-100000@cp.pathfinder.com>
Reply-To: Paul Bradley <paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
> I mean, geez, if nothing else, look at what I've been writing. Last
> Thursday I wrote about how the Federal government should get out of the
> business of "protecting privacy." On Friday I wrote about how "protecting
> children" from animated cartoon images is another pretext for
> Net-censorship. Who else is saying that?
I must side with Declan here, true, sometimes Declans articles show a
subtle hint of insiderism <tm>, but I believe that is an inevitable
consequence of working around people in D.C. who don`t want to be
directly associated with certain statements, to quote them against their
will would be journalistic suicide and would soon see Declan with no
contacts whatsoever.
Also, although his articles are often written to be readable by the
uninformed rather than security experts or cryptographers they often
raise important points. Remember, although through Declan and John Young
we have a lot of current news posts coming on to the list the average AOL
account owning newbie won`t know about these things and reading some of
Declans articles might just get them thinking.
Datacomms Technologies data security
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