At 12:39 AM 9/14/95, don@cs.byu.edu wrote:
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Just saw this on Usenet, was wondering who knows this guy. Obviously not a cpunk or it would have hit the list right away. Not in the mood to run code on my account without knowing that I know what it will do.
From: bobs@mathworks.com (Bob Silverman) Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.crypt,alt.security.pgp,sci.math.num-analysis,comp.arch.arithme tic
It's funny, this thing about names and reputations. You see, I know the name "Bob Silverman," and his company, Mathworks, a whole lot more than I know the name "don@cs.byu.edu". Mathworks was heavily in the news last fall during the Pentium debacle (including someone I used to know from Intel, Cleve Moler). I've only seen the posts of "don@cs.byu.edu" since 8-29-95, just the last two weeks. (I don't claim to have a complete archive, as I delete a lot of stuff. But this is the earliest don@cs.byu.edu post I can find.) Certainly I am not impugning the reputation of don@cs.byu.edu, just noting the irony of him asking for if anyone knows who Bob Silverman is. Strange days. --Tim May ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."