-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 09:13 PM 4/24/97 -0700, Blanc wrote:
I wish these people would go live in the U.S.S.R., or something.(*)
Indeed - I frequently find myself wondering who really won the cold war. The "free world" seems to be adopting the totalitarian/surveillance-state tactics and behaviors usually ascribed to the nations which "lost" the cold war; but the "losers" seem to have a much better grasp of the importance of human freedom than the "winners" do. The FBI's recent request for the capability to carry on 60,000 simultaneous wiretaps calls to mind the wiretap apparatus of Eastern Europe, but with modern hardware. Yow. We have met the enemy, and it is us. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 4.5 iQEVAgUBM2Biq/37pMWUJFlhAQGe/gf+MsHlayfW15lwPnTZl5ZzZ9TKptpq/C2y UXuwVVu2wfziOw5/LyUWgkWLNPn4D3BYrn1uDFWhxlWEioHh0G31cC7nVFi2sCjj 58zzKkImyjKRhWo4z+suqoXKGu004bo3afRClv4iNVswDvlLFm/Xx4sDjHmzO5Vb MbjhfsIjA17mRRdlUAUgs26Xet52t1YodV2DBVl/P8UibFuuUIEebBPS0yEgYytq S1AmQH2JivI3m+gpDJ7Qbrqdt1znU/2JbaBNS5//1924KLgk8zzI+B2O9VAsRbx2 JB+i9P3S8aHS5Y2SQ5P19oiTh9nTrniGUAbOth751Ttlj+uABfP1FA== =aY23 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Greg Broiles | US crypto export control policy in a nutshell: gbroiles@netbox.com | http://www.io.com/~gbroiles | Export jobs, not crypto. |