Re: Exporting crypto from Japan

Adam Back writes:

> I am pleased that you are discussing with us crypto politics in
> Japan... we have few contributors from Japan in the past.

Yeah, surprising, isn't it, considering how open and welcoming the
cypherpunks have been to foreigners and minority races...

Actually Adam Back should be nominated for cypherpunk of the year.
Unlike a blowhard do-nothing like Timothy "Chop-chop" May (and now we know
what the C stands for, don't we?), Adam actually accomplishes things.
His 3-line RSA has dramatized the absurdity of the export controls like
nothing else.  He built a working prototype of an eternity server while
everybody else just talked about it.  He's been a leader in the fight to
oppose PGP GAKware.  He has strong political views but is not motivated
by hatred and fear.

Adam doesn't get nearly the respect he deserves, probably because he's
not much of a wordsmith.  Tim May's sophistry is good enough to pull
the wool over most people's eyes.  But look deeper and you'll see that
Adam's heart is pure.  That's worth far more than May's skill at artfully
wrapping his garbage.

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In <199711180715.IAA13188@basement.replay.com>, on 11/18/97 
   at 08:15 AM, Anonymous <nobody@REPLAY.COM> said:

>Adam Back writes:

>> I am pleased that you are discussing with us crypto politics in
>> Japan... we have few contributors from Japan in the past.

>Yeah, surprising, isn't it, considering how open and welcoming the
>cypherpunks have been to foreigners and minority races...

>Actually Adam Back should be nominated for cypherpunk of the year. Unlike
>a blowhard do-nothing like Timothy "Chop-chop" May (and now we know what
>the C stands for, don't we?), Adam actually accomplishes things. His
>3-line RSA has dramatized the absurdity of the export controls like
>nothing else.  He built a working prototype of an eternity server while
>everybody else just talked about it.  He's been a leader in the fight to
>oppose PGP GAKware.  He has strong political views but is not motivated
>by hatred and fear.

>Adam doesn't get nearly the respect he deserves, probably because he's
>not much of a wordsmith.  Tim May's sophistry is good enough to pull the
>wool over most people's eyes.  But look deeper and you'll see that Adam's
>heart is pure.  That's worth far more than May's skill at artfully
>wrapping his garbage.

So when is the marriage planed??

Are you and Adam registered at Harrod's so I can send a gift?


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Anonymous <nobody@REPLAY.COM> writes:
> Adam doesn't get nearly the respect he deserves,

Adam Back gets LOTS of respect from me.  He's exremely kewl.

Since I obviously have a little more time right now than usual, I
wrote a prototype "Stalingrad" exploit last weekend (for Winsock -
a Unix version shouldn't be too far away).  Anyone wants to test it?

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

The San Jose Mercury News reports that Judge Patel has been promoted to
Chief Judge of the Northern District of California.  It lists some of her
decisions as:

* The first judge to declare illegal the WW2 internment of Japanese-Americans

* The gas chamber is a cruel and unusual punishment.

Given the way these high profile decisions have been upheld on appeal, we
can hope for the Burnstein case to be upheld as well.


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