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Re: they should have used crypto...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keith Dawson)
Tue Nov 23 15:25:29 1999
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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 13:14:24 -0500
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
From: Keith Dawson <dawson@world.std.com>
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At 9:24 AM -0500 11/23/99, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>Alibris is both a rare book dealer and an ISP serving other book dealers; they
>kept copies of messages from Amazon.com to other dealers.
I wrote the Media Grok piece on this that'll be coming out later
today. The gig is media crit, not cyber activism, so I didn't try
to make such a point (the editor would have cut it anyway). But
it's a good touchstone for mainstream acceptance of crypto: imagine
a world in which every routine email from Amazon comes wrapped.
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