From: Jim Ray <jmr@shopmiami.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:38:05 +0800
To: fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu
Subject: RE: Hiawatha Bray's column on key-recovery crypto
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At 09:44 AM 9/11/97 -0400, Hiawatha Bray wrote:
>What a cool idea!  Why didn't I think of that?  
>
>Hiawatha
>
>On Thursday, September 11, 1997 9:41 AM, Arnold G. Reinhold [SMTP:reinhold@worl
>
>> 
>> Hiawatha, I enjoyed your column (Boston Globe Business Section Sept. 11),
>> but why don't you announce that you have a PGP key, print it's signature in
>> a column and ask people to use it to send you news tips? This would enable
>> a freedom of the press challange to GAK.

Further, he could give pointers to Private Idaho, John Doe, etc.,
and encourage the use of anonymous tips to the newsmedia. Since
I operate a cyberspace parking garage (the WinSock Remailer) and
since the Lippo Administration is the most Nixonian since Tricky
himself, I would think that the major media would be up-in-arms
over threats to anonymous communication over the web. After all,
which reporter-team doesn't want to be the next Woodward and
Bernstein? I can understand (while not agreeing with...) my local
rag's opposition to the second amendment, but the total apathy
shown to dangers faced by the first is hard to fathom. I read the
Herald pretty carefully, yet there has been NOTHING this week on
the crypto-controversy. Nothing. While I often disagree with the
Miami Herald's reporting decisions (both substance and emphasis)
it is rare that I find it this scary. <sigh>
JMR

P.S. When *Seth* said, "(and wow, do they like to rant on every
issue)" about Libertarians, my irony-meter broke its needle.


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