At 10:12 AM 10/19/2001 +1000, Julian Assange wrote:
He's a gun-for-hire, not a doctrinaire blinders-on true believer for either the surveillance enthusiasts or privacy freaks.
Oh, come off it.
Stu is a well known NSA zealot.
Have you actually spoken with him, or are you just working from press reports? Lots of things are "well known" and wrong, too.
The only reason there's a bridge between Kapor and Baker is due to the cavernous ravine that lays between them. Kapor is now apparently half-way across, following Stu's silently bekoning finger, fearfully running from the sounds of angels wings; fooled into believing that they lie behind and not ahead of him.
I don't know what Kapor has been smoking, but getting focused on Stewart Baker as the enemy is a distraction. He's articulate, and sympathetic to law enforcement/intelligence arguments in favor of surveillance and against privacy, but I'd sure rather hear him make those arguments in public than have him make them in private where the rest of us can't respond or prepare for what's coming. Maybe Kapor just now noticed that lives really are at stake - crypto and security aren't just about spying on porn downloads and credit cards. His reaction is typical of leftist privacy activists the first time they need to really grapple with violence and its implications - they want to get as far from it as possible, and defer to the right-wing "experts" they previously opposed. If the FBI really is preparing for a domestic surveillance initiative, hearing about that months in advance is a lot more helpful than yet another incompatible peer-to-peer content distribution system. -- Greg Broiles gbroiles@well.com "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids