[1122] in java-interest
Re: Tool of the Government
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Uomini)
Sat Aug 19 14:34:56 1995
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 08:18:55 -0700
From: uomini@fractals.fractals.com (Robert Uomini)
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM, sandy@almide.demon.co.uk
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> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 03:21:53 GMT
> From: Alexander Anderson <sandy@almide.demon.co.uk>
> To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
> Subject: Tool of the Government
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> Dear Bob Uomini,
>
> I put that message in from the posting in alt.www.hotjava. It didn't
> seem the usual junk mail.
>
> Is it trash? I'd like to know, because the InterNet is growing so
> rapidly that all everything is being effected. Telephone companies,
> Magazines, Banking, Stock Markets, Businesses.
>
> I remember the story appearing recently of how Rivest, Shamir and
> Adleman, in the days before the InterNet, managed to publish, _by_the_skin
> _of_their_teeth_, the now famous article in Scientific American in 1979,
> about Public Key Cryptography. Now RSA is a lynch-pin of many Net
> Services, including Java.
>
> Is it trash?
Is it relevent to this group? No. Is there an alternative to forking over
some bread to some bozo in order to get heard in Washington? Yes. Try
using e-mail; most of Congress has e-mail addresses (check out the THOMAS
site for a full list), and I believe there's even an 800 number to call
for contacting the Senate and House.
Bob
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