From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 15:25:05 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: SAFE Forum--some comments
Message-ID: <199607030434.VAA25837@mail.pacifier.com>
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At 07:00 PM 7/2/96 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote:
>At  2:47 PM 7/2/96 -0700, Lile Elam wrote:
>>The comment I kept hearing over and over was that we have to 
>>educate the public about what cryptography is and why it's important
>>to everyone using computers to communicate. This public includes
>>people who are not on the net and those who don't even know what the 
>>Internet is. 
>
>Absolutely!  The image of postcards vs. letters may be the most effective
>metaphor.


However, that AT+T fellow who revealed the phone records to the militia 
group would also be an appropriate comparison to destroy the "key-escrow" 
idea.  I assume AT+T had procedures in place which were SUPPOSED TO prevent 
this.  Well, key-escrow agents "will" also have similar procedures.  Why 
should we assume they will be more reliable?

Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com