-- On 6 Aug 2002 at 16:12, Jay Sulzberger wrote:
If we wish to improve security and privacy, then let us improve ssh and GNUPG so that they can actually be installed and used by more people. It is better to think about and to work on our own systems than to waste time and money and effort on discovering the endless "flaws" and "inadequacies" and "dangers" and the endless amusing Panglossian "advantages" of TCPA/Palladium.
Not everyone is equally evil, and even when they are equally evil not everyone is as immediate a threat. Roosevelt allied himself with Stalin, Reagan found himself fighting the same enemy puppet regime as Pol Pot was fighting. Hollywood is not TCPA, though there seem to be disturbing connections, and Palladium is not TCPA either. Hollywood wants to turn computers users by law into passive consumers of content generated by large corporations. Microsoft, despite all of its sins, has very different and less evil objectives. TCPA looks to me suspiciously like a stalking horse for the hollywood program. As yet, I do not know what the case is with Palladium. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG Zna/iIvm7+exkPJmH+Ywo/J1MS/WQtJX45T0vGSI 2doVQThla81OopVfWO1DW+1Ps9ao+2zjzU2p6mQ7I