Ken McGlothlen writes:
ld231782@longs.lance.colostate.edu ("L. Detweiler") rants: | I owe no courtesy ...
More ludicrousness....
You know, while resisting the temptation to respond to Mr. Detweiler (my rational self knows it's pointless, but my ire is raised), I've begun to wonder whether this sort of psychosis is an anomaly or if it'll be more common as the net becomes accessible to more and more people. We've all worried about various types of regulations on traffic which may be proposed or imposed as the net becomes more common. What if this type of paranoia crops up more frequently? (Indeed, it may have happened many times in the past; Mr. Detweiler is just very "loud" about it.) Is it likely that there are a lot of people on shaky emotional footing who'll lose their grip when faced with the new sociological paradigms of electronic communities? And, most importantly, should I be chastised for using cypherpunks bandwidth for my musings? :-) If so, I'll here make a lame attempt to redeem myself by giving a preliminary thumbs up to the "Applied Cryptography" text by Bruce Schneier. I picked up my copy over the weekend, and it looks like a winner. -- Mike McNally