I mean, geez, if nothing else, look at what I've been writing. Last Thursday I wrote about how the Federal government should get out of the business of "protecting privacy." On Friday I wrote about how "protecting children" from animated cartoon images is another pretext for Net-censorship. Who else is saying that?
I must side with Declan here, true, sometimes Declans articles show a subtle hint of insiderism <tm>, but I believe that is an inevitable consequence of working around people in D.C. who don`t want to be directly associated with certain statements, to quote them against their will would be journalistic suicide and would soon see Declan with no contacts whatsoever. Also, although his articles are often written to be readable by the uninformed rather than security experts or cryptographers they often raise important points. Remember, although through Declan and John Young we have a lot of current news posts coming on to the list the average AOL account owning newbie won`t know about these things and reading some of Declans articles might just get them thinking. Datacomms Technologies data security Paul Bradley, Paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk Paul@crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul@cryptography.uk.eu.org Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/ Email for PGP public key, ID: FC76DA85 "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"