1996-11-28 - Re: Counterproductive Dorothy Denning Flames

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From: “William H. Geiger III” <whgiii@amaranth.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 00769e608d6a8ab06e43bb625bff697efed42960b97a50bf4aeffe1ddb310b68
Message ID: <199611282045.OAA12565@mailhub.amaranth.com>
Reply To: <BR14XD16w165w@bwalk.dm.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-11-28 19:30:54 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:30:54 -0800 (PST)

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From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@amaranth.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:30:54 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Counterproductive Dorothy Denning Flames
In-Reply-To: <BR14XD16w165w@bwalk.dm.com>
Message-ID: <199611282045.OAA12565@mailhub.amaranth.com>
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In <BR14XD16w165w@bwalk.dm.com>, on 11/28/96 
   at 10:26 AM, dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM) said:

>"William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@amaranth.com> writes:
>> <sigh> GAK - Government Access to Keys and corporate control of encryption pr
>> keys are two completely different issues. This is just more smoke and mirrors
>> confuse the issue. There are many solutions currently available for a company
>> the encryption of their data including the use of "master keys" to prevent da
>> option available even with PGP). Government mandated infrastructure of GAK is
>> and unwarranted for such purposes.

>Surely someone who can't learn to format their text to 80 columns
>(perhaps because he uses a dead operating system) has no credibility when
>he speaks of technical things he clearly knows nothing about.

Are you incapable of turning on the word-wrap on your editor??

>You remind me of a student in my C++ class who just couldn't understand
>why a certain C expression evaluated to what it did. We made it simpler
>and simpler until we had no variables left and this expression (w/o
>parens) on the board:
>                                   1+1*2
>The student forcefully argued that it should be equal to 4.

Well seems to be a lack in your teaching ability if you are unable to
teach a collage student basic arithmatic order of operations.

>> Cooking With Warp 4.0

>Another sign of cluelessness. OS/2 is dead. I've beein using OS/2 since v
>1.0, but now I'm moving to NT 4.0. I need to find the device drivers for
>all my hardware.

hmmm... Ahhh and NT is better??

>Choke on your turkey. :-)

hmmm... no responce to the actual issue?? What's wrong Dimitri ? Only
capable of your enless rants? 

<sigh> back to the twit filter you go.

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