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Re: The Policeman Inside

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent Crispin)
Mon Nov 17 02:29:48 1997

Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 23:07:32 -0800
From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
In-Reply-To: <v03102822b094c86ba119@[207.167.93.63]>; from Tim May on Sun, Nov 16, 1997 at 09:03:50AM -0700
Reply-To: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>

On Sun, Nov 16, 1997 at 09:03:50AM -0700, Tim "Ad Hominem" May wrote:
[...]
> As Bob Hettinga, Kent Crispin, and other policemen inside are warning, if
> we don't censor ourselves, if we don't narc out others, the real police
> will have to do it for us. Welcome to the New World Order.

You're of the "courtesy == censorship" school, clearly.

> Of course, an alternative is to say "Fuck you" to those who want us to shut
> up,

Apparently the only alternative that you understand.

> to deploy more unbreakable crypto, to encourage more armed militias to
> spring up, to destabilize the regimes in Hong Kong, Japan, and India, and
> to "Just Say No" to backdoors in PGP and other crypto products. Bring on
> crypto anarchy.

Yeah, yeah.  You won't live to see it, Tim.

-- 
Kent Crispin				"No reason to get excited",
kent@songbird.com			the thief he kindly spoke...
PGP fingerprint:   B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44  61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55
http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html


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