17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Jonathan Rochkind writes:
The 29 January New Yorker has an article "Hackworm" that discusses the Mitnick-Shimomura-Markoff echoing cypherpunks lack of sympathy for the Markoff-Shimomura P.R. extravaganza. Article ends mentioning cypherpunks and John Gilmore specifically, discussion of crypto politics, while not entirely toe-ing the cypherpunks party line, an enhearteningly informed and rational treatement.
Could someone please explain to me why Mitnick is a cypherpunk issue? Myself, I have neither sympathy nor lack of sympathy for the Markoff-Shimomura "pr extravaganza", see no "cypherpunk" opinion on the subject, and don't see any reason we should, as a group, discuss or care about the topic. Perry