1996-05-23 - Re: INFO: Transcript of Sen. Leahy’s RealAudio chat now available! (5/22/96)

Header Data

From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
To: Voters Telecommunications Watch <cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 7c41839f3bcb9e6278e0dadd61f4f200355f833f540fdf304509bd800ded5154
Message ID: <199605231655.JAA26293@mail.pacifier.com>
Reply To: N/A
UTC Datetime: 1996-05-23 22:34:45 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 06:34:45 +0800

Raw message

From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 06:34:45 +0800
To: Voters Telecommunications Watch <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: INFO: Transcript of Sen. Leahy's RealAudio chat now available! (5/22/96)
Message-ID: <199605231655.JAA26293@mail.pacifier.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain


At 01:34 AM 5/23/96 -0400, Voters Telecommunications Watch wrote:
>           REALAUDIO TRANSCRIPTS OF LEAHY'S WIREDSIDE CHAT AVAILABLE
>                              Date: May 22, 1996
>         URL:http://www.crypto.com/            crypto-news@panix.com
>NEWS
>Rave reviews of Senator Leahy's appearance on HotWired's WiredSide chat
>are coming already.  With this appearance, the gentleman from Vermont
>proves once again that he knows net.politics on a personal level, and
>can understands the subtleties that we assume many in Congress are just
>learning.

Well, he must have learned it all in the last few months, because his bill 
was the closest thing to DOA that we've seen in a long time, exceeded only 
by GAK 3.  I'd like to hear from him what the source of the text of the 
Leahy bill on encryption really was:  Who pressured him to make it so bad?

Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com





Thread