From: adwestro@ouray.Denver.Colorado.EDU (Alan Westrope)
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 95 09:38:57 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Peter D. Lewis
In-Reply-To: <199501070558.AAA04212@bb.hks.net>
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On Sat, 7 Jan 1995, "L. Todd Masco" <cactus@hks.net> wrote:

> Like "Seventeen," "Wired" should prepend "don't you wish you were" to
> its title.

Ah, yes, I wish I were "(c) Both of the above" -- as the Sinatra lyric
sez, "When I was seventeen, it was a very WiReD year..."

I think generalizing about "Wired" is like generalizing about the NY
Times, where Markoff and Lewis arguably exemplify the best and worst
of mainstream computer/telecom journalism.  "Wired" has many flaws, but
I consider Steven Levy's articles about Cypherpunks, Whitfield Diffie,
and digital cash to be among the best expositions of Cypherpunk issues
for the layperson.  (Kelly's "Whole Earth Review" piece is another.)

I can forgive some faults in return for seeing Levy's non-technical
explanations of public-key crypto and the Dining Cryptographers protocol
in successive issues. :-)

Alan Westrope                  <awestrop@nyx.cs.du.edu>
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