From: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 07:04:53 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: [NOISE] Re: The Big Lie
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On Sun, 28 Jan 1996, John F. Fricker wrote:

> Rewriting history is a powerful tool, whether it be the history of the
> death of Hendrix, the death of Kennedy, the logging of the pacific
> northwest or of ethnic cleansing. 

It is a tool that can and should be countered. Which has some crypto 
relevance.

> The only way to combat the powerful who would seek to rewrite history 
> is to create an authenticatable system for document storage. Text books 
> have long been regarded as the predominant model yet, pick up any high 
> school history book and marvel at the differences from say Zinn's "The 
> People's History of the United States". What is needed is more though. A 

Actually, Zinn's book was the textbook for AP US History in my public high
school. Of course the teacher in question, an avowed socialist, has always
been controversial, and my parents urged me not to take AP US History for
that reason. 

> system whereby one can trace the source of the information to the actual 
> time and place of an event as well as authenticating identity.

Very much agreed. What we need is an offshore data haven to archive every
public lie spoken by these folks. 

I've heard back from Zundel, and I will be mirroring his site, partly for
the reasons above. The people who run Nizkor are very much in favor of the
mirror, and plan to link to it. The Wiesenthal Center has no comment.
Nizkor and the Wiesenthal Center tend not to comment on each other,
either. 

-rich