From: paul@hawksbill.sprintmrn.com (Paul Ferguson)
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 94 05:56:08 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: (fwd) Going to a Computer Conference?  Don't use your real name!
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RISKS-LIST: RISKS-FORUM Digest  Tuesday 5 July 1994  Volume 16 : Issue 19


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Date: Wed, 4 May 1994 01:54:33 GMT
From: srhoades@netcom.com (Steve L. Rhoades)
Subject: Going to a Computer Conference?  Don't use your real name!

[Excerpted from MicroTimes  April 18, 1994  Issue #122]

At the fourth Computers, Freedom, & Privacy conference in Chicago last month,
the spotlight was on the growing conflict between the rights of individuals
and the role of government in the digital age.  A luckless Whitehouse House
representative and a lawyer for the NSA tried to convince a varied and
skeptical crowd that government control of cryptography was somehow a Good
Thing;

Meanwhile, in their search for fugitive criminals Kevin Mitnick and
wooden-legged "Agent Steal", the FBI erroneously arrested one unfortunate
attendee whose name happened to resemble one of Mitnick's aliases and
interrogated two others, including an ex-Marine and CIA veteran Robert David
Steele of Open Sources. ...

Steve L. Rhoades, :30 Second Street, Mt. Wilson, Calif 91023
(818) 794-6004  srhoades@netcom.com

  [An article by John Markoff on Mitnick appeared on the
  front page of The New York Times, July 4, 1994.  PGN]

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- paul