[67258] in Cypherpunks
Re: Clipper III on the table
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adamsc)
Fri Oct 4 06:26:12 1996
From: Adamsc@io-online.com (Adamsc)
To: "cypherpunks@toad.com" <cypherpunks@toad.com>,
"Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 96 00:04:41 -0700
Reply-To: "Chris Adams" <adamsc@io-online.com>
On Tue, 1 Oct 1996 19:34:23 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote:
>As for IBM's involvement, they've played around with the NSA for decades.
>Nothing new there. Fortunately, today they're just a marginal player.
This is a very dangerous statement to make. IBM is nowhere near as powerful
as they were, but they're still very solidly entrenched in the business
world*. Money is what will ultimately decide this issue - if Bill
Clinton's VISA was abused after a hacker sniffed a network transaction ITAR
would be dead within seconds!
* - people have said that OS/2 is dead. Well it turns out that IBM is making
several *BILLION* in sales every year on it from their business deals.
According to figures I've seen, they have a high percentage of the F500
market.
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