[12760] in Cypherpunks
Re: Cypherpunks as lobbying/propagandizing group
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Black Unicorn)
Fri Apr 29 20:39:32 1994
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 20:35:52 -0400
From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@access.digex.net>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com, jims@Central.KeyWest.MPGN.COM
Jim Sewell says:
My intent is not to form a group to go lobby congress or anything of
that nature. My idea was to create a list of "credentials" for the
group as a whole so that when active folks do go to the press or to
meetings between CPSR & the NSA then they can have in their hands a
bit of "proof" that we aren't the computer-student-woodstock-wannabes
the NSA et al. say we are.
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I don't want the NSA to know what or who I am.
I want them to think we're a bunch of politically isolated geeks.
If they keep saying so, the political opposition to whatever they are
trying to defend on the grounds that the opponents are geeks will
only support us and discredit the NSA in general.
-uni- (Dark)
