[82521] in Cypherpunks
Re: NEWS.COM - Rumor Mill
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Thu Jun 26 20:26:52 1997
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 19:42:41 -0400
To: Alan Olsen <root@nwdtc.com>
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@algebra.com
Reply-To: Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com>
Not a rumor -- it's true. Crowell was wandering around wondering what was
going on.
The excuse was that ~60 votes were scheduled on the Senate floor yesterday.
-Declan
At 14:26 -0700 6/26/97, Alan Olsen wrote:
>No Freeh lunch?
>
>
>http://www.news.com/Rumors/0,29,,00.html
>
>At the end of the article...
>
>While hackers were getting busy, the crypto honchos were
>getting dissed in D.C. Apparently, a group of bigwigs,
>including Louis Freeh of the FBI, William Crowell of NSA,
>Peter Neumann of SRI, and Ray Ozzie of Lotus, flew all the
>way out to the nation's capital for a Senate Judiciary
>Committee hearing on cryptography, only to be informed 20
>minutes before the meeting that it had been canceled.
>Grumbling ensued as the various participants stormed back
>to Dulles airport. The meeting may pick up after the July 4
>recess.
