-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sat, 7 Jan 1995, "L. Todd Masco" <cactus@hks.net> wrote:
Like "Seventeen," "Wired" should prepend "don't you wish you were" to its title.
Ah, yes, I wish I were "(c) Both of the above" -- as the Sinatra lyric sez, "When I was seventeen, it was a very WiReD year..." I think generalizing about "Wired" is like generalizing about the NY Times, where Markoff and Lewis arguably exemplify the best and worst of mainstream computer/telecom journalism. "Wired" has many flaws, but I consider Steven Levy's articles about Cypherpunks, Whitfield Diffie, and digital cash to be among the best expositions of Cypherpunk issues for the layperson. (Kelly's "Whole Earth Review" piece is another.) I can forgive some faults in return for seeing Levy's non-technical explanations of public-key crypto and the Dining Cryptographers protocol in successive issues. :-) Alan Westrope <awestrop@nyx.cs.du.edu> __________/|-, <adwestro@ouray.denver.colorado.edu> (_) \|-' 2.6.2 public key: finger / servers PGP 0xB8359639: D6 89 74 03 77 C8 2D 43 7C CA 6D 57 29 25 69 23 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBLw7QeVRRFMq4NZY5AQEc8AQAqZ/Yp7+yEEYikZja/bF8c468I4C147q7 7AjuMsT1NN0Yt9HZB+mxtKdrbOL7QLyJgbk3c6NJ18nUkianZTnQNCEzr35BYwh7 7dCsIsiMWUVdjmahjEeppJZvKAZrRioW0KAMTnmPK6vWFXtttS0kl5k5FG/na3+n KJoDdNOVsTg= =lcQW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----