Cpunks War Dance, Feinstein Hari-Kari

http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/090697patent.html

A Patent Falls, and the Internet Dances

By Peter Wayner

>From the beginning, though, patent 4,200,770 was different. This
Saturday night a group of computer scientists, Internet fanatics and
Beltway politicos will gather in Washington, D.C.; Silicon Valley; and
Boston to celebrate the end of the patent granted to Whitfield Diffie
and Martin Hellman for a way to encrypt data. 

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http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/090697feinstein.html

Feinstein's Remarks Rankle Constituents 

By Laurie J. Flynn

If Dianne Feinstein, California's voice in the U.S. Senate, were
looking for the fastest way to alienate her most powerful block of
voters, she may have found it this week.

At 1:07 PM -0700 9/6/97, John Young wrote:
>http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/090697patent.html
>
>A Patent Falls, and the Internet Dances
>
>By Peter Wayner
>
>>From the beginning, though, patent 4,200,770 was different. This
>Saturday night a group of computer scientists, Internet fanatics and
>Beltway politicos will gather in Washington, D.C.; Silicon Valley; and
>Boston to celebrate the end of the patent granted to Whitfield Diffie
>and Martin Hellman for a way to encrypt data.


Sounds to me like this reporter helped manufacture the news.....

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

And puppets still dance....



There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws.
Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!"
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Timothy C. May              | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
tcmay@got.net  408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA  | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
Higher Power: 2^1398269     | black markets, collapse of governments.
"National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

Tim May wrote:

> >A Patent Falls, and the Internet Dances
> >
> >By Peter Wayner
> >
> >>From the beginning, though, patent 4,200,770 was different. This
> >Saturday night a group of computer scientists, Internet fanatics and
> >Beltway politicos will gather in Washington, D.C.; Silicon Valley; and
> >Boston to celebrate the end of the patent granted to Whitfield Diffie
> >and Martin Hellman for a way to encrypt data.
 
> Sounds to me like this reporter helped manufacture the news.....
> 
> The more things change, the more they remain the same.
> 
> And puppets still dance....

Tim,
  I told Peter Wayner about your plans to commit suicide tonight.
He's already written a story for tomorrow, and he wants to know
if you're going to do it, or let him down and make him look like
an idiot.

The 1/2MONGER