-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- More news about the 1984 NSA Shirt: A while ago, David Morrison, of the National Journal (a weekly political commentary journal) contacted me about the 1984 shirt. It turns out somebody else had been wearing one around the office, and he liked the design. He bought one from me, and asked me to send him some information about the issue clipper issue. I packed up a shirt, printed out various articles on both sides of the clipper issue (mostly from the cp archive) wrote up a short summary of each, and included a bit of my own views on the issue. I also included a copy of Tim May's FAQ on a 3.5 inch disk. At any rate, yesterday in the mail I received two copies of the Dec. 10, 1994 National Journal. On p. 2883 (the very first non-advertising page), at the bottom, a box contained a picture of the shirt, w/ the headline "Looks Like a Cheap Chip Shot." The brief text reads: More on the "Clipper" chip, the eavesdroppable encryption key pushed by the National Security Agency: Hearing an NSA spook jest that Big Brother was running 10 years behind schedule, John. D. Blair of Cypherpunks, an anarcho-libertarian Internet group--designed the eye-catching T-shirt at left. "My feelings about its illegitimacy are pretty strong," said Blair, who has sold 250 of the anti-chip shirts on the Net. NSA chief counsel Stewart A. Baker raps Clipper criticism as "the long delayed revenge of people who couldn't go to Woodstock because they had too much trig homework." I don't think the NSA spook part is fair to Kenneth Olthaff, the spook that inspired the shirt. Too bad he didn't include my e-mail address, as well ;) Seriously, though, I've found the shirt has been a good way to get people talking about Clipper, and related issues, here at super-conservative, very pro establishment Miami University (oxford, OH). Its created some inquiry where people had no idea there was even anything to inquire about (or have even heard of the NSA in the first place). If any of you want to resell them, e-mail me and we can work out a deal that makes it worth your time, as well as spread the word about Clipper. The crude web page is still in place with basic info at: http://nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu/t-shirt later, - -john. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Blair: <jdblair@nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu> voice: (513) 529-3980 http://nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu/~jdblair 85 81 F8 16 12 97 4C 68 Unix System Administrator, Juggler A1 A0 40 95 BF 03 60 E1 Student of Interdisciplinary Studies (finger me for PGP key) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAwUBLu/JSvU/70a7khXpAQGXqQP/f13xNwEVYefpCGwnETBHzdP1v7fkRpQE Pdb4H8gzn8MclAF5eFNLG9Nlvbh0Fz//Qx941Ud6xKDGBNMj7P9P84A0DcN0Kv2x 5sS1WX5R1NraZi4h7D/Ctfb6dJVQUYb3pqOaQzcmqyzffu+IfOONnzySJ6BF0tmw /kisD0mWK5o= =6cWL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----