From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 05:26:46 +0800
To: Marc Rotenberg <bryce@digicash.com
Subject: Re: May's Banal Rant
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At 3:06 PM -0700 6/2/97, Marc Rotenberg wrote:
>I just came back from the 7th annual crypto
>conference that we've  organized in DC. Among
>the people who spoke were Carl Ellison, Eric
>Hughes, Matt Blaze, Peter Wayner, Cindy Cohn,
>Bruce Schneier. (Michael Froomkin was invited, but
>he's been out of the country. And Whit couldn't
>make it cause he's finishing his book.)
>
>Like I said, Tim May et al are behind the
>curve. You guys preach cyber anarchy but
>you're really armchair activists.
>

I've tried to ignore your "appeals to authority" criticisms of the points I
and other have made. But this is just stooping too low.

Because we were not speakers at your conference, we're "armchair activists."

Incredible.

I'll have no more to say to you, now or at any foreseeable time in the future.


There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws.
Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!"
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