At 5:47 AM -0800 5/2/97, Shabbir J. Safdar wrote:
Ah, so here is the source of all the conspiracy theories:
At 1:14 AM -0700 5/2/97, Greg Broiles wrote:
At 09:12 PM 5/1/97 -0400, Shabbir J. Safdar wrote:
I'm also puzzled by the fact that CDT is being criticized pretty much solely, even though the entire Internet Privacy Coalition, and several other groups all wrote a letter of support of the bill with only a criticism of one provision.
I think this is occurring for two reasons: 2. It strikes me as unlikely that all of the groups mentioned really sat down and hashed all of this out - my hunch is that one or two of the groups wrote up an analysis and a proposed letter, and asked the other groups to sign on. A likely suspect for the/a group who did the behind-the-scenes work is CDT.
Well, no. As the person who apparently triggered this latest round of SAFE-cracking, I'll comment on why I focussed on CDT: * it was CDT who was issuing most of the alerts, the letters, and the cheerleadings. (If EFF had any such messages, I didn't see them, nor did I see such alerts from the other organizations you mentioned as being supporters of SAFE.) * the CDT press release was a convenient message to respond to. * the CDT Web site is where I've been finding the text of these bills (thanks, of course, and I mean that). I don't worry about nonense about whether CDT pulls the strings, though in one of my later messages I _did_ say I think CDT will carry the baggage of SAFE the way EFF carried the baggage of Digital Telephony. People don't forget who's out in front. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."