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1996-07-22 - Re: Netscape

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From: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
To: Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>
Message Hash: c92476b839ac0bf65a8ab49f9ac53f79490b0d3530275ee5c7fbec48c43306b6
Message ID: <31F2F40D.167E@netscape.com>
Reply To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960721193739.11723C-100000@crl2.crl.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-07-22 06:49:06 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:49:06 +0800

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From: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:49:06 +0800
To: Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>
Subject: Re: Netscape
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960721193739.11723C-100000@crl2.crl.com>
Message-ID: <31F2F40D.167E@netscape.com>
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Sandy Sandfort wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 21 Jul 1996, Tom Weinstein wrote:
> 
>> What I object to is anonymous activists who perform acts at no risk
>> to themselves which make it harder for those of us who are trying to
>> bring strong crypto to everyone.
> 
> Personally, I think it was a good idea for the American Colonists
> to shoot at the British from behind rocks and trees.  As Tom
> pointed out in his post, there are relatively few Cypherpunks.
> We all do what we can, in whatever way best suits are temprament,
> talents and acceptible risk level.  There is no single tao; there
> are many paths.  For Netscape, dialog and negotiations may be the
> best way to promote privacy, for Zimmermann, it was guerilla
> programming, for others it might be high-tech monkey-wrenching.
> To each his own.  As far as I can see, they are all trying to
> bring strong crypto to everyone.

I agree with you 100%.  Note that while the American Colonists were
shooting at the British, they didn't take their friends and pin them to
trees as decoys.

-- 
You should only break rules of style if you can    | Tom Weinstein
coherently explain what you gain by so doing.      | tomw@netscape.com

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