[82096] in Cypherpunks
Re: Extremely Disappointing: Political Cryptography
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benjamin Grosman)
Fri Jun 20 03:42:09 1997
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 16:58:50 +1000
From: Benjamin Grosman <bgrosman@healey.com.au>
To: Charles Platt <cp@panix.com>
Cc: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com,
cryptography@c2.net
Reply-To: Benjamin Grosman <bgrosman@healey.com.au>
> I'm not saying I _want_ an agency making decisions for us; only that
> it
> would be slightly less hideously exasperating than our present
> situation,
> where technoliterates are being ruled by technoilliterates.
>
I would totally agree with you here...having an agency is definitely the
best of a bad set of choices.
> corrupt. We might get two or three good years out of a Federal
> Internet
> Agency, depending who was appointed to run it.
And that would probably be a major problem...finding someone with whom
both the government and industry are happy.
Ben
