On Monday, November 26, 2001, at 06:24 PM, Anonymous wrote:
The following message by Lance Cottrell responding to John Young's accusations was sent to the cypherpunks list but apparently never appeared here.
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Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 00:15:16 -0800 To: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>, Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs@philodox.com>, dcsb@ai.mit.edu, cryptography@wasabisystems.com, cypherpunks@lne.com, jya@pipeline.com From: "Lance M. Cottrell" <lcottrell@anonymizer.com> Subject: Re: Anonymizing Scam Describing our policy of open access as "sucking up to the TLAs" is absurd. I would have thought my history in this field would have earned me some consideration before jumping to that kind of conclusion. Does government and industry have no rights to, or needs for, privacy? It seems a hypocritical position for Cypherpunks to take.
"It seems a hypocritical position for Cypherpunks to take." Assuming that John Young speaks for "Cyphepunks" is bizarre. --Tim May "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant." --John Stuart Mill