Arsen Ray Arachelian says:
rarachel@photon.poly.edu (Arsen Ray Arachelian):
FEB 17 CYPHERPUNKS TRANSCRIPT Copyright (C) 1994, cypherpunks@toad.com All Rights Reserved.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I wonder how the courts will interpret that ;)
This will certainly put a nice toad up the NSA's ass. Anyone reading this will see that the cypherpunks are a bunch of folk that stick together as a single entity whose purpose right now is to kill clipper.
That wasn't the topic of the discussion in question, actually. It was largely just a discussion on cryptography in general and its implications, slanted towards anarchists, who were the audiance being addressed. Most of the population is extremely hostile to anarchism, so from a PR point of view that talk isn't what you want. Also, it unfairly makes it look like "cypherpunk" means "anarchist". Now, it happpens that I am an anarchist, but that isn't what most people associated with the term "cypherpunk" believe in, and it isn't fair to paint them that way -- hell, many people on this mailing list are overtly hostile to anarchism. I don't want people to think you have to hate the idea of government in order to like cryptography. The copyright is also meaningless because a non-person (human or corporate) cannot copyright something. Certainly an email address can't hold a copyright. In any case I consider it a little odd that I would not under your copyright be permitted to sell someone a copy of my own words. Lastly, I don't know what was on that disk exactly, but I've started getting calls from random kooks about it. I find that a bit disturbing. Did you leave my phone number on it or something? Perry