From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 09:19:00 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: CNET Digital Dispatch Vol. 2 No. 38
Message-ID: <3.0b16.32.19960921155903.00c51bac@mail.teleport.com>
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The individual who posted the C-Net top ten missed the crypto-related parts
of that issue. (I guess the humor section is all that people read on
C-Net...)
Here is what he missed...
>Hook up your new system to the Net, and use it to remake
>yourself. Get a virtual nose ring. Program your avatar with
>all the attributes you wish you had. On the Internet, your
>image is up to you. What will yours be? Read Editor-in-Chief
>Christopher Barr's views on online identity:
>
>http://www.cnet.com/Content/Voices/Barr/091696/index.html
>
>Maybe you're not ready to share your identity. Maybe that's
>the furthest thing from your mind. If you've got secrets to
>keep, you need to know about Pretty Good Privacy, the de
>facto encryption standard for email. Our tutorial will tell
>you how to get PGP software and how to use it:
>
>http://www.cnet.com/Content/Features/Howto/Privacy/index.html
>
>Then be sure to read our update on mover and shaker Philip
>Zimmerman, the guy who invented PGP:
>
>http://www.cnet.com/Content/Voices/Movers/zimmermann.html
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Alan Olsen -- alano@teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction
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