At 5:41 PM 12/25/95, John Young wrote:
If you care, Jim is smoothly hawking a beautiful world of easy-going crypto on C-Span 2, at least in NYC at 5:35 PM.
Actually, he did a pretty good job of towing the er, party line. Lots of good opportunities for analogical heavy lifting in arguments with statists. "Suppose you had a very strong door which protected your whole house and made it inviolate. Suppose then the government then wanted to have copy of your door keys on the off-chance you turn into a crack dealer someday...", etc. Except for the fact that he wants Uncle to protect his patents, that is... ;-). This was done on December 8 at the Commonwealth Club in SFO. Were there c'punks there? The questions sounded like it... He also said something about some kind of magic badge with biometric/PK software which would allow you to work anywhere there was a network connection. Reminiscent of our discussions about Xerox PARC's ubiquitous computing stuff, Gerry O'Neil's 2081, etc. I feel a rant coming on about this "information toaster" stuff, Metcalfe's fight with Alsop in Infoworld, etc. Guess I'll start it tomorrow. Take cover everybody... Merry Christmas! Cheers, Bob ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA (617) 958-3971 "Reality is not optional." --Thomas Sowell The NEW(!) e$ Home Page: http://thumper.vmeng.com/pub/rah/
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