--- begin forwarded text Sender: e$@thumper.vmeng.com Reply-To: Will Rodger <rodger@worldnet.att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Precedence: Bulk Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 16:48:05 -0500 From: Will Rodger <rodger@worldnet.att.net> To: Multiple recipients of <e$@thumper.vmeng.com> Subject: Re: Aghast.. Folks - just for the record - the Freeh summary was a CLEAR typo, or at least vague in its meaning. Someone meant to say Freeh thought it was an *alienable* right. So much for cute phraseology. Then again, anyone familiar with the numerous pieces we've run on crypto would likely have guessed at our meaning. Sen. Conrad Burns, after all, was #21 on our list.
I couldn't believe my eyes when reading through Inter@ctive Week's "The Driving Forces of Cyberspace" Top 25 list I saw that Louis J. Freeh, Director of the FBI received an Honorable Mention because of him supposedly believing that "Encryption is an inalienable right." I suppose that isn't necessarily a lie, but it would need the word "Weak" added on to the front in order to qualify it. Anyway, I was quite disappointed in seeing their poor choice of this candidate.
And yes, my face is at least as my hair, right now....... Will Rodger Washington Bureau Chief Inter@ctive Week --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "The cost of anything is the foregone alternative" -- Walter Johnson The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/