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1997-11-17 - Re: The Policeman Inside

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From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Message Hash: 4dd8195c74b0339c22d0fe06647ab5d9ae49e7f91c115896c30d407e68cf9e89
Message ID: <19971116230732.31621@songbird.com>
Reply To: <v0310280bb092291ceb73@[207.167.93.63]>
UTC Datetime: 1997-11-17 07:16:56 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 15:16:56 +0800

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From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 15:16:56 +0800
To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Subject: Re: The Policeman Inside
In-Reply-To: <v0310280bb092291ceb73@[207.167.93.63]>
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On Sun, Nov 16, 1997 at 09:03:50AM -0700, Tim "Ad Hominem" May wrote:
[...]
> As Bob Hettinga, Kent Crispin, and other policemen inside are warning, if
> we don't censor ourselves, if we don't narc out others, the real police
> will have to do it for us. Welcome to the New World Order.

You're of the "courtesy == censorship" school, clearly.

> Of course, an alternative is to say "Fuck you" to those who want us to shut
> up,

Apparently the only alternative that you understand.

> to deploy more unbreakable crypto, to encourage more armed militias to
> spring up, to destabilize the regimes in Hong Kong, Japan, and India, and
> to "Just Say No" to backdoors in PGP and other crypto products. Bring on
> crypto anarchy.

Yeah, yeah.  You won't live to see it, Tim.

-- 
Kent Crispin				"No reason to get excited",
kent@songbird.com			the thief he kindly spoke...
PGP fingerprint:   B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44  61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55
http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html

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