Re: Peter D. Lewis

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Tim sez:
 > I think Kelly is a person of high integrity. It's hard to demand much
 > more than this.

I simply can't think much of a magazine that has cover stories deriving
entirely from kiddie-kracker squabbles.

Kelly may have plenty of integrity but that's not the word that the
magazine "Wired" usually brings to mind.  It's not the profit motive or
the ads that get me: running a business, I know you can't be picky about
who you take money from. It's the lack of meaningful content that annoys
me.  As with Lewis, frequenly when they're discussing something I know
something about their stories are fraught with inaccuracies and rumours.
My personal favorite is when they list reporters among the "experts" on
their technology-watch light bites.

Their entire approach is to cast 

Like "Seventeen," "Wired" should prepend "don't you wish you were" to
its title.
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On Sat, 7 Jan 1995, "L. Todd Masco" <cactus@hks.net> wrote:

> Like "Seventeen," "Wired" should prepend "don't you wish you were" to
> its title.

Ah, yes, I wish I were "(c) Both of the above" -- as the Sinatra lyric
sez, "When I was seventeen, it was a very WiReD year..."

I think generalizing about "Wired" is like generalizing about the NY
Times, where Markoff and Lewis arguably exemplify the best and worst
of mainstream computer/telecom journalism.  "Wired" has many flaws, but
I consider Steven Levy's articles about Cypherpunks, Whitfield Diffie,
and digital cash to be among the best expositions of Cypherpunk issues
for the layperson.  (Kelly's "Whole Earth Review" piece is another.)

I can forgive some faults in return for seeing Levy's non-technical
explanations of public-key crypto and the Dining Cryptographers protocol
in successive issues. :-)

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