[46652] in Cypherpunks
Re: please stop the Mitnick stuff
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Sat Jan 6 19:53:38 1996
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Jan 1996 01:23:16 +0100."
<199601070023.BAA04907@utopia.hacktic.nl>
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1996 19:42:41 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Anonymous writes:
>
> At 06:31 PM 1/6/96 -0500, Perry Metzger wrote:
> >
> >This is cypherpunks, not Mitnick punks, Shimomura punks, or anything
> >similar. I personally don't care about Kevin Mitnick, and he most
> >certainly has little to no cryptography relevance at this point. Take
> >it elsewhere.
>
> C'mon, Perry, give it a break. Mitnick's case has to do with security
> issues as well as the violations of privacy and/or search and seizure
> the government used to arrest him.
This isn't Libernet-d or something similar. This isn't where we
discuss violations of search and seizure laws or thing of that
kind. The world is full of injustice -- but this isn't the place to
discuss it. Mitnick's case has very little (certainly at this point)
to do with security, and never had anything to do with cryptography.
> I found it interesting. If you didn't, then all you had to do was
> delete it.
When there are one or two small items posted on a topic thats no big
deal. When its a lot of stuff, it becomes an enormous pain. Multiply
the few seconds to read and digest enough of a message to know you
should delete it by dozens of messages per mailing list per day and by
a dozen mailing lists and you suddenly have an untenable waste of your
time.
Perry
