The Deviant wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jul 1996, Tom Weinstein wrote:
A handful of cyperpunks hardly constitutes "widespread polititcally motivated disobedience". In any case, the demonization has already begun; they point their fingers at the four horsemen of the internet at every oportunity.
One might say the same thing about 10 or 20 people throwing shipments of tea off of boats in boston harbor.
Good point.
What I object to is anonymous activists who perform acts at no risk to themselves which make it harder for those of us who are trying to bring strong crypto to everyone.
Why? Because they can do it without risk? The way I see it, if you can do something that should be done, and you can do it at no risk to yourself, then its all the better.
Fine. Please do it with something you write yourself, not with our products.
The first step is to create at least a strong minority. A handful of cypherpunks can be largely ignored. We have to get the general public using and educated about strong crypto before civil disobedience will mean anything.
Hrmm... I'll agree with that... We need to do something to get ourselves noticed (and no, I don't mean blowing up the NSA headquarters)
Yes, and that's what we're trying to do. Get strong crypto in the hands of as many people as we can. I can hardly wait until we get S/MIME in. -- You should only break rules of style if you can | Tom Weinstein coherently explain what you gain by so doing. | tomw@netscape.com