This is just plain silly. If I thought Zero-Knowledge had been subverted, or was shipping or encouraging GAK, I would quit. I'm still here. Adam On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 08:25:01PM +0100, Anonymous Remailer wrote: | Risking to fall into the doomsayer trap, I would call this a | classical "bait switch" technique. | | Bait was a genuine product, probably developed by the genuine | company and people. | | Switch happened later, when men with guns decided to pick up | this thing. | | But what really pisses me off is that seemengly intelligent | people keep on ranting about their intentions. Who the fuck | cares what the intentions are/were ? Establishing trust with | the crypto-savvy is what ZKS did. That asset is owned by | whoever owns the company, not by hired hands. And the use of | that asset will be whatever they decide. | | Creating such an asset brings responsibility, and ZKS folks failed | there: their work will be used for other purposes, and there is | nothing they can do about it. | | Assuming that one can make money by providing protection from | the people that print that money is just plain silly. -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume