[44578] in Cypherpunks
Re: Suggestion for CP browser
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher J. Shaulis)
Sun Dec 3 16:17:56 1995
From: "Christopher J. Shaulis" <cjs@netcom.com>
To: fc@all.net (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen)
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 15:03:15 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9512031205.AA24992@all.net> from "Dr. Frederick B. Cohen" at Dec 3, 95 07:05:06 am
> I think a CP browser is just the ticket to change the way the world works.
> How about this:
>
> - CP writes a browser with PGP or better quality crypto.
> - CP makes it freely available to any individual
> - CP licenses it to corporations for $1 per copy
> - Funds produced go to support worthy causes, support a permanent
> home for CP, and support anti GAK efforts (lobying, etc.)
>
> I think the CP browser should include an embedded language (not Java -
> maybe a version of LISP) that does a far better job than Java of assuring
> limitations on what programs can do. It should also support faking the
> source of a browser request (for privacy of the user), all forms of digital
> cash, firewall-type forwarding, pseudonyms, and all of the other things that
> CPs fight for.
I was just about to say something rude to whoever wrote this one, then
I noticed who it was.
Where is a clue hammer when you need one?
Christopher
