From: bchappe%sunoco@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Brett Chappell)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 94 06:53:58 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Waco in cyberspace
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>In the June 6 issue of the New Yorker is an interesting story by  
>John Seabrook (who did the email interview with Bill Gates) about  
>getting flamed and how violated and uspset it made him. Lots of not 
>explicitly stated suggestion that maybe somebody will need to control 
>all this, and some very confusing material suggesting to the non-technical
>that viruses or worms may be sent via email messages. "Is this free speech?".
>But the chilling passage in the article is on page 77 where the writer says
> 
>>Dr. Clinton C. Brooks, the N.S.A.'s lead scientist on the Clipper Chip 
>>told me, "You won't have a Waco in Texas, you'll have a Waco in cyberspace.
>>You could have a cult, spaeking to each other through encyrption, that 
>>suddenly erupts in society - well programmed, well organized - and then
>>suddenly disappears again."
> 
>Getting scared yet? 
> 
>-Steve