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1997-06-20 - Re: Extremely Disappointing: Political Cryptography

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From: Benjamin Grosman <bgrosman@healey.com.au>
To: Charles Platt <cp@panix.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1997-06-20 07:15:47 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:15:47 +0800

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From: Benjamin Grosman <bgrosman@healey.com.au>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:15:47 +0800
To: Charles Platt <cp@panix.com>
Subject: Re: Extremely Disappointing: Political Cryptography
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> I'm not saying I _want_ an agency making decisions for us; only that
> it
> would be slightly less hideously exasperating than our present
> situation,
> where technoliterates are being ruled by technoilliterates.
>
I would totally agree with you here...having an agency is definitely the
best of a bad set of choices.

> corrupt. We might get two or three good years out of a Federal
> Internet
> Agency, depending who was appointed to run it.

And that would probably be a major problem...finding someone with whom
both the government and industry are happy.

Ben

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