From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 03:46:10 +0800
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Subject: Re: Request for illegal electronic surveillance examples and cases
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Heh. I've never actually published anything in Time Digital. The one piece
I worked on for them was a full-page interview with Crypto-czar David
Aaron that was supposed to happen when he was in town in January. 

But he blew me and the photographer off and left town without being
interviewed.

I learned much later that he always hated the term "crypto-czar," which I
(and my co-authors) coined in an article we wrote a year ago breaking the
news on his appointment. Maybe that's why he ducked out.

-Declan


On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Tim May wrote:

> At 11:33 AM -0700 10/2/97, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> >Thanks, all, for the suggestions. Unfortunately my time is limited: my
> >deadline is tonight. I'm working on a roundup of pre-reported
> >cases, not reporting out new ones. (at least for this project)
> 
> Meaning nothing against Declan personally, this "my deadline is tonight" is
> one of the reasons I almost never read news magazines anymore.
> 
> (I stupidly bought a copy of something "Time" calls "Time Digital," as it
> seemed to have some of my acquaintances in it. I should've spotted the jive
> by the title on the cover, "Our Exclusive Ranking of the Cyber Elite." Lots
> of one-line quoting of pundits, shots of the overexposed geekbabe Pohlese,
> and fatuous nonsense about what it means to be rich in Silicon Valley. I
> wouldn't have believed it could be possible,  but "Time Digital" is far,
> far worse than "Wired." Here's to hoping it dies a merciful death in the
> next few months.)