From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 06:40:42 +0800
To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Subject: Re: Cpunks War Dance, Feinstein Hari-Kari
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At 1:07 PM -0700 9/6/97, John Young wrote:
>http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/090697patent.html
>
>A Patent Falls, and the Internet Dances
>
>By Peter Wayner
>
>>From the beginning, though, patent 4,200,770 was different. This
>Saturday night a group of computer scientists, Internet fanatics and
>Beltway politicos will gather in Washington, D.C.; Silicon Valley; and
>Boston to celebrate the end of the patent granted to Whitfield Diffie
>and Martin Hellman for a way to encrypt data.


Sounds to me like this reporter helped manufacture the news.....

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

And puppets still dance....



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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