-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <9408240400.AA18251@fnord.lehman.com>, "Rick Busdiecker" wrote:
regardless of the content. In any case, I find it quite disappointing to hear that one of the cypherpunks founders frowns on people actually using strong crypto on a routine basis. Sigh...
To which Tim provides the enlightening reply:
"Sigh."
Stick to your guns, Rick. Even cypherpunks founders can become corrupted. Here is how Tim's perspective was publically reported a mere year ago:
The Village Voice August 3, 1993 Vol. 38, No. 31 pages 33 through 37
Code Warriors
Battling for the Keys to Privacy in the Info Age by Julian Dibbell
And Cypherpunks are hackers to the bone. ``Encryption always wins,'' Tim May insists with the serene confidence of one convinced he's a mere conduit for historical tendencies built into information technology itself --- and yet by definition no Cypherpunk takes the ultimate achievement of the group's goal for granted. A pragmatic activism hardwires the group's collective identity, their very motto (``Cypherpunks write code'') signals a commitment to making the proliferation of cryptographic tools happen now rather than waiting on big business, big science, or Big Brother to determine its fate. Nor is this commitment limited to the creation of tools; indeed, an even better motto might be ``Cypherpunks use code,'' since the essence of the revolution the 'punks seek to effect lies in making encryption a cultural habit, as common and acceptable as hiding letters inside envelopes. Thus the Cypherpunks' almost religious use of PGP and of their use of their own primitive remailer systems isn't just a grown-ups' game of cloak and dagger, as it sometimes seems, or a matter of testing out the crypto hackers' experimental creations. It's an attempt to nudge ciphertech toward that pivotal accumulation of users that finally makes the forward rush of the technology's far-reaching social implications irresistible.
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