From: azur@netcom.com (Steve Schear)
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 18:29:53 -0700 (PDT)
To: Clint Barnett <cbarnett@eciad.bc.ca>
Subject: Re: NSA/GCSB spying shown on NZ television [RANT]
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>clint barnett wrote:
[snip]
>If you think that you
>can resist the NSA and win, more power to you, and I'll help if I can, but
>I don't think you can.However, I strongly believe that you have the power
>to limit the information they steal from you, and thereby limit the
>control they have over you. If you can keep your wits about you, act fast
>when you have to, and run away to fight another day, then you can maybe
>do some good, but don't make a martyr of yourself or anyone else, because
>martyrs can't write code, they can't attack or defend a system, they can
>only lay there and rot in jail or in the ground.
>

To paraphrase Gen. George S. Patton, "No dumb bastard ever won by dying for
his cause, he won by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his."




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