1997-10-22 - Adam Back: Guardian of CP purity? (Re: puff pieces vs tough crypto issues)

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From: “William H. Geiger III” <whgiii@invweb.net>
To: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
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Message ID: <199710222322.TAA16450@users.invweb.net>
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UTC Datetime: 1997-10-22 23:33:49 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 07:33:49 +0800

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From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@invweb.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 07:33:49 +0800
To: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
Subject: Adam Back: Guardian of CP purity? (Re: puff pieces vs tough crypto issues)
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In <199710221356.OAA02611@server.test.net>, on 10/22/97 
   at 02, Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk> said:

>Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> writes:
>>
>> [puff piece on toilets]
>> 

>No offense Declan, but what has this got to do with cypherpunks,
>cryptography, crypto politics etc?  (This is not a perrygram, this is a
>message saying I found that particular article uninteresting).

>I think we'd be more interested to see an analysis piece of the political
>merits/demerits of the pgp5.5 CMR corporate message recovery technique
>than of _toilets_.

>Where do you stand on the CMR argument?  Or are you staying away from the
>hot potato :-)

Exactly who died and made you the guardian of Truth, Justice, and the
Cypherpunk Way??? Sometimes I think you take yourself way too seriously
Adam.


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