From: Kent Crispin <kent@bywater.songbird.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 23:15:10 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: CMR versus GAK?
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On Mon, Oct 27, 1997 at 07:45:38AM -0500, John Young wrote:
> Lutz wrote:
> 
> >May be in your (poor) country. There is a world outside US.
> 
> Good point, and note that there are many other worlds within the US
> besides the LOOD stud-employer-has-manifest-destiny-control 
> version.
> 
> But it is good marketing to sell fearful business owners gadgets
> and to perpetuate their sense of knowing what's going on behind
> their backs, as with frightened pols, spies, cops, parents and 
> straights, leaky prophylactics supplemented with arms to bear 
> when the hints of betrayal and inadequacy become unbearable. 

Implicit you make the notion there is no merit.  But experience is a 
harsh mistress -- employees do steal.  This is not fiction, but fact.

> Not that the gadgets and arms work when you can't ID or crosshair 
> the elusive backalley cats aprowl.
> 
> Same goes for workers and youngsters who think the bosses and
> oldsters are duncemunge: WSJ, Dilbert and Phrack are funnies to 
> avoid the admitting the deeper complicity of secret crossovers by
> your favorite peer group into the opposing camps, political, economic, 
> legal, scientific, not to say no longer secure national and sexual borders.

People change.  Usually, they learn.  Sometimes they burn.

-- 
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kent@songbird.com			the thief he kindly spoke...
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