Hallam-Baker <hallam@ai.mit.edu> writes:
There is absolutely nothing that the anti-government ranters contribute to the pro-cryptography movement...
Nothing except motivation. Anti-government ranters founded this list, invented remailers, and did a lot of other good work.
[first remailer ...]
I'll accept that the ranting faction do some good work but I've not seen anything usefull out of either Bell or Vulis unless that is you are an FBI agent looking to get a promotion from Freeh.
Dimitri rights code sometimes. He wrote a cancel-bot. Very constructive piece of work in an indirect way. See: having nice freely available cancel-bots enables technically clueless, would be-censors to censor more. They censor more, and cause a nuisance for themselves sending out tons of cancel messages. This incentivizes more and more people to ignore cancels (the trend in news administration these days I understand is to ignore cancels entirely), which means that you can't have your USENET posts censored nearly as easily. Adam -- Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`