[67705] in Cypherpunks
Microsoft Millionaires and Billionaires
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy C. May)
Wed Oct 9 16:15:55 1996
In-Reply-To: <325BD6C6.715F@tivoli.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 12:55:22 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
At 11:45 AM -0500 10/9/96, Mike McNally wrote:
>And so what happens when the Microsoft key is compromised? It might
>be hard to break by purely cryptographic means, but surely there are
>some people at Microsoft who aren't millionaires.
Indeed, not all Microserfs are millionaires. Accessing the URL,
http://microsoft.com/list_of_millionaires, I find that as of the close of
business yesterday, there were 13 non-millionaires at Microsoft. Seven were
part-time janitors, three were in food service, and the remaining three had
no identifiable jobs. (And two of the janitors are expected to become
millionaires any day now.)
And http://microsoft.com/list_of_billionaires reports three on the list.
Glad to be of help.
--Klaus
"The government announcement is disastrous," said Jim Bidzos,.."We warned IBM
that the National Security Agency would try to twist their technology."
[NYT, 1996-10-02]
We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed.
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Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
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"National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."
