NODE b96548cfRe: Bidzos Holds Key / A hacker's paradise
Alex Strasheim <cp@proust.suba.com>Wed, 17 Apr 1996 18:32:10 +0800
Someone just asked me if it would be possible for the NSA to use a front
company to buy crypto patents (or companies that own lots of crypto
patents), then simply pull them off the market.
When I thought about it I couldn't understand why they haven't done it
already.
Can whoever ends up with the rsa patent pull rsaref off the market, and
retroactively make software that uses it illegal? Or would they just be
able to prevent people from writing new code with rsaref?
NODE 73ca6f92Re: Bidzos Holds Key / A hacker's paradise
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>Wed, 17 Apr 1996 19:47:24 +0800
Alex Strasheim writes:
> Can whoever ends up with the rsa patent pull rsaref off the market, and
> retroactively make software that uses it illegal?
No.
> Or would they just be able to prevent people from writing new code
> with rsaref?
No, they couldn't do that either.
.pm
NODE 7fff6f83[NOISE] Bizdos / A hacker's paradise
Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>Thu, 18 Apr 1996 04:08:56 +0800
1) Wasn't hacker's paradise the theme to Dangerously Mindless?
Tell me why are we so blind to see
That the code we need is on ftp
2) I keep getting wierd mental pictures of Jim Bizdos in that Saturday
Night Live sketch
"You likea the source? It's a good source. Hey, he no likea the source"
---
They say in online country So which side are you on boys
There is no middle way Which side are you on
You'll either be a Usenet man Which side are you on boys
Or a thug for the CDA Which side are you on?
National Union of Computer Operatives; Hackers, local 37 APL-CPIO