[117632] in Cypherpunks
risk/threat level?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Tue Sep 7 17:05:14 1999
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 22:41:56 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <199909072041.WAA27132@mail.replay.com>
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
At 08:00 AM 9/7/99 +0200, Anonymous wrote:
>The point is, it is absurd to raise paranoia to
>the point that you suspect a back door in the RNG chip, if you're not
>going to be equally concerned about all the other components you are
>forced to trust.
Absolutely. And all the 'components' we don't think of:
like sharp and pointy shrubs in front of the windows, etc.
But we can't talk about everything in one place.
Clearly, if mr Rabbit does not work in an embassy,
five sided building, major financial or pharmacotransporting
infrastructures, he's just excercising the faculties.
Pondering what a .50 cal rifle would do to the doe nibbling
his carrots, when a simple electric fence would do.
Is this daydreaming a waste of time? What if you had bears that
liked meat?
>So, Rabbit, you're going to stick with good ol' 1996 hardware, forever?
>What a great plan. And it's only going to get better with time. Fine
>computers, like fine wine...
Don't you find it telling that the NSA only accepts and
emits press statements via a *fax* machine?
