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1997-09-12 - Re: The problem of playing politics with our constitutional rights

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From: Glenn Hauman <hauman@bb.com>
To: Tim May <declan@well.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1997-09-12 16:28:41 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 00:28:41 +0800

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From: Glenn Hauman <hauman@bb.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 00:28:41 +0800
To: Tim May <declan@well.com>
Subject: Re: The problem of playing politics with our constitutional rights
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At 1:42 AM -0400 9/12/97, Tim May wrote:
>At 10:05 PM -0700 9/11/97, James S. Tyre wrote:
>
>>So, the last rhetorical question -- how do you convince someone who's
>>never used a browser (the vast majority of the voting populace, I'd
>>think) why crypto is important?
>
>This is back to where we were four and a half years ago, when Clipper was
>dropped on us. "How do we educate the users?"
>
>Trust me, it's a hopeless task. We don't have the advertising budgets, the
>staff for education, etc.
>
>And it ain't our responsibility to "save" the sheeple.

True, but if it's war, we gotta get more troops. I don't want to save them,
I want more troops on my side.

Education is good. Exploiting FUD is probably better. (DoJ's learned
something from dealing with Microsoft.) Luckily, it ain't that hard to whip
up Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt against the US Government.


Best-- Glenn Hauman, BiblioBytes
       http://www.bb.com/

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