17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
6:17 p.m.
Bill Stewart wrote:
Sigh. A company called I-Planet is trying to trademark the term "Cypherspace", even though we've been using it for a couple of years in the cypherpunk community. They're doing an IPSEC Virtual Private Network, with friendly HTML administration; http://www.i-planet.com/P2cypherpb.html . Looks like interesting stuff, and I wish them luck except in TMing the name :-)
What these guys are selling is an embedded unix box with some crypto code in the kernel, plus socks, sendmail, named, apache, and some fax software pre-installed, for $5000. Pretty high price for a 100 mhz FreeBSD box, tho I suspect they have substantial tech support costs. I saw no mention of trademark claims for "cypherspace" on their web site.