NODE a32087b0Re: Four horsemen skew Internet
Lyle Seaman <lws@transarc.com>Wed, 8 Oct 1997 03:51:09 +0800
This is an off-topic rant. Anyone who wants to make me happy will convince
the NYT to investigate the following question:
How did Magaziner get to be "Clinton's Top Internet Adviser"?
Last I knew, he was the Clintons' "Top Health Care Adviser".
That is, after he was Rick Miller's $1k/hr "Top Wang Labs Turnaround
Adviser", 1 year before they declared bankruptcy. For a guy with such a
string of successes, he seems to keep popping up someplace new.
At 01:33 PM 10/7/97 -0500, jbugden@alis.com wrote:
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>Excerpted from the following NY Times article:
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>http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/100797encrypt.html
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>Clinton's Top Internet Adviser Says
>U.S. Encryption Policy Is Unformed
>
>Magaziner took The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal to task for what
>he characterized as sensationalizing negative aspects of the Internet. An
>analysis of the newspapers' front-page coverage of the global computer network
>in the last year, he said, revealed that the four most popular words or phrases
>in such articles were "drug deal," "stalker," "bomb maker" and "pornography."
>Such coverage, he asserted, had led to a popular image of the Internet that was
>fundamentally skewed and that made arguing for market-driven solutions
>difficult.
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NODE ac192df6Re: Four horsemen skew Internet
Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>Wed, 8 Oct 1997 06:23:23 +0800
At 3:35 pm -0400 on 10/7/97, Lyle Seaman wrote:
> Last I knew, he was the Clintons' "Top Health Care Adviser".
> That is, after he was Rick Miller's $1k/hr "Top Wang Labs Turnaround
> Adviser", 1 year before they declared bankruptcy. For a guy with such a
> string of successes, he seems to keep popping up someplace new.
So, what you're telling us is, having Good Ol' Ira in charge of crypto is
*good* news...
"There's no law like *no* law" and all that...
Cheers,
Bob Hettinga
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