From: jdblair@nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 94 20:40:53 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List )
Subject: 1984 T-shirt news
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More news about the 1984 NSA Shirt:

A while ago, David Morrison, of the National Journal (a weekly political
commentary journal) contacted me about the 1984 shirt.  It turns out 
somebody else had been wearing one around the office, and he liked the 
design.  He bought one from me, and asked me to send him some information 
about the issue clipper issue.  I packed up a shirt, printed out various 
articles on both sides of the clipper issue (mostly from the cp archive) 
wrote up a short summary of each, and included a bit of my own views on 
the issue.  I also included a copy of Tim May's FAQ on a 3.5 inch disk.

At any rate, yesterday in the mail I received two copies of the Dec. 10, 
1994 National Journal.  On p. 2883 (the very first non-advertising page), 
at the bottom, a box contained a picture of the shirt, w/ the headline 
"Looks Like a Cheap Chip Shot."  The brief text reads:

More on the "Clipper" chip, the eavesdroppable encryption key pushed by 
the National Security Agency: Hearing an NSA spook jest that Big Brother 
was running 10 years behind schedule, John. D. Blair of Cypherpunks, an 
anarcho-libertarian Internet group--designed the eye-catching T-shirt at 
left.  "My feelings about its illegitimacy are pretty strong," said 
Blair, who has sold 250 of the anti-chip shirts on the Net.  NSA chief 
counsel Stewart A. Baker raps Clipper criticism as "the long delayed 
revenge of people who couldn't go to Woodstock because they had too much 
trig homework."


I don't think the NSA spook part is fair to Kenneth Olthaff, the spook 
that inspired the shirt.  Too bad he didn't include my e-mail address, as 
well ;)

Seriously, though, I've found the shirt has been a good way to get people
talking about Clipper, and related issues, here at super-conservative,
very pro establishment Miami University (oxford, OH).  Its created some
inquiry where people had no idea there was even anything to inquire about
(or have even heard of the NSA in the first place). 

If any of you want to resell them, e-mail me and we can work out a deal 
that makes it worth your time, as well as spread the word about Clipper.

The crude web page is still in place with basic info at:
http://nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu/t-shirt

later,
- -john.

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