[119107] in Cypherpunks
Ghandi's machine gun; ietfbi
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Fri Oct 15 05:38:54 1999
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:20:16 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <199910150920.LAA30708@sofuku.monster.org>
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
At 12:08 AM 10/15/99 +0100, Adam Back wrote:
>[Cc: cypherpunks -- discussion of whether IETF should become involved
>in building tracing and tapping etc into protocols at:
>http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/raven ]
>
>Let's talk about strategy and tactics.
A standards-making body competes for mindshare. If someone is making
tainted standards, others will form their own. Look at
the Sun vs. HP Java wars.
It would be a damn shame if the IETF lost credibility/control this way, but
he who lies with swine wakes with fleas,
and may find future partners unwilling to associate.
>What can the crypto hacker, protocol designer, policy wonk, and
>company executive do about this.
And if you were a pacificist drafted to design bombs (or else), what kind
of bomb would you build?
If you were a jew in a nazi munitions plant..
If you were a cisco coder with a new mortgage..
