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Re: Haystack (helping "dissidents"?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Tue Sep 28 07:35:19 2010
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:33:09 -0400
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: "M.R." <makrober@gmail.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <4C924A8F.3030809@gmail.com>
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 04:49:19PM +0000, M.R. wrote:
| I said (something like) this when Haystack first appeared on this
| list...
|
| Words "dissidents" and "oppressive regimes" have no place in
| serious discussions among cryptographers. Once we start assigning
| ethical categorizations to those that protect and those that attack
| (data files, communications channels, etc.) we are watering the
| garden in which the weeds like Haystack flourish.
Declarations about the appropriateness of the language of others have
no place in serious discussions among cryptographers. Once we start
assigning ethical categorizations to words, we are watering the garden
in which flamewars flourish.
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