[67116] in Cypherpunks
Re: NYT on IBM GAK
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Burroughs)
Wed Oct 2 21:28:55 1996
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 18:10:49 -0700
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Rich Burroughs <richieb@teleport.com>
At 02:03 PM 10/2/96 -0800, you wrote:
>At 08:26 AM 10/2/96 -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
>>
>>
>>On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, John Young wrote:
>>
>>> The New York Times, October 2, 1996, pp. D1, D8.
>>> Executives of the International Business Machines
>>> Corporation said late yesterday that they were still lining
>>> up the final list of companies in the alliance. Those
>>> involved will include Digital Equipment and smaller
>>> data-security companies including RSA Data Security, Cylink
>>> and Trusted Information Systems.
>>
>>We are in deep trouble.
>>--Lucky
>
>Wouldn't a letter-writing campaign be in order here?
[snip]
The word "boycott" leaped into my mind. I personally do not believe that I
will be buying products from any of these companies, as long as thay
participate in this GAK charade.
Rich
