[67149] in Cypherpunks
Re: Fighting Clipper III
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Thu Oct 3 10:08:39 1996
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 06:37:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@eff.org>
To: Jim McCoy <mccoy@communities.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <v03007802ae791065bbd7@[205.162.51.35]>
You'll have trouble doing a successful boycott of RSA. What, you won't
use Netscape Navigator or PGP?
-Declan
On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Jim McCoy wrote:
> Rich Burroughs <richieb@teleport.com> 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.
> >>
> >>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.
>
> Such an initiative will need publicity and letter-writing early in the
> campaign will help us set the tone and points of debate on this issue.
> A boycott works best when everyone knows why and there are a few key
> phrases which can be used to get the message across. Something like
> "company X is helping build big brother, boycott their products" or a
> few similar sound bites are needed fast. The big brother inside stickers
> from the last campaign were nice, maybe people can come up with variations
> of various corporate logos or marketting phrases which help get the message
> across?
>
> jim
>
>
// declan@eff.org // I do not represent the EFF // declan@well.com //
