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1996-01-26 - Re: RANT: cypherpunks do NSA’s job for them!!

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From: m5@dev.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
To: “Vladimir Z. Nuri” <vznuri@netcom.com>
Message Hash: cc4cb678014a66a14dc6f06768f705fd42afc67a57bc11bb3d3636a55e0e1cd2
Message ID: <9601260028.AA12225@alpha>
Reply To: <9601252218.AA12260@alpha>
UTC Datetime: 1996-01-26 04:48:43 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 12:48:43 +0800

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From: m5@dev.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 12:48:43 +0800
To: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: RANT: cypherpunks do NSA's job for them!!
In-Reply-To: <9601252218.AA12260@alpha>
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Vladimir Z. Nuri writes:
 > the Tao of bad government: if you really want to get rid of a law,
 > act and think at all times as if it doesn't even exist.

I accept that that's one way of going about things, but I challenge
you to demonstrate conclusively that it is the only means to generate
political interest in opposition to a law.  I happen to disagree with
this, and I refuse to accept the wacky notion that by explaining to
somebody that what they're doing is in violation of a pointless stupid
law, and explaining why it's only through wide exposure of that
pointless stupidity that the law and others like it can be struck
down, that I am unwittingly strengthening the law.  Balderdash.

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