RE: Anyone Striking?

Even http://www.openpgp.net is still up and operational.  I agree with Perry
M. and Jim C. that the concept was good but the timetable was unfortunately
unrealistic.  I've not run across any strike pages.

me

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Carlos Macedo Gomes      gomes@netsolve.com       NetSolve, Inc.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Hettinga [mailto:rah@shipwright.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 14, 1998 10:01 AM
> To: James Glave
> Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com; cryptography@c2.net; dcsb@ai.mit.edu
> Subject: Re: Anyone Striking?
> 
> 
> At 10:29 AM -0500 on 12/14/98, James Glave wrote:
> 
> 
> > Anyone participating in the strike today?
> 
> Evidently not...
> 
> Cheers,
> Robert Hettinga
> -----------------
> Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
> "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
> [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
> experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
>

NYT's Markoff reports on IBMs' release today of 
"Secure Mailer," an open-source platform for what's 
touted to be a superior secure e-mail system
proposed as a global standard for open development. 
It's the work of IBM researcher Wietse Venema.

IBM's description:

   http://jya.com/ibm-secmail.htm

At 9:29 AM -0800 12/14/98, Gomes, Carlos wrote:
>Even http://www.openpgp.net is still up and operational.  I agree with Perry
>M. and Jim C. that the concept was good but the timetable was unfortunately
>unrealistic.  I've not run across any strike pages.

A foolish idea, that little "strike." Something out of the lefty sixties.
Grape boycotts and all that nonsense.

Clearly the Wassenaar folks will be so influenced by a few thousands
computer users withdrawing from the Net for one frigging day that they will
rethink their Orwellian plans and will admit their crimes in an orgy of
self-criticism.

Give me a fucking break.

The _only_ motivation was to induce journalists to give the think a few
column inches, if even that. "Hundreds of geeks cut their noses off to
spite their faces...details on page 75."

Exporting PGP within minutes of its release...now _that's_ a meaningful
action! (And one which Cypherpunks continue to be good at.)

Let's leave the "National Solidarity Against Racist Policies" crapola to
the lefties.

--Tim May

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