On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Jeff Nisewanger wrote:
There are t-shirts out there with both human readable and machine readable (bar code) versions of the RSA in 3 code.... Wear it when boarding an international flight....
Or take out a classified ad (so to speak) in the New York Times and have it published on paper.
Woo! This sounds like an easily doable, easily managable mass protest. We start a mailing list or website (a website would be better) of volunteers and the newspapers they intend to place ads in. Major papers would hopefully get multiple copies of the ad in multiple sections. All on the same day. But then, they often charge per word, and one gigantic string of nonsense might not obey any newspaper's rules. But I like the idea of organizing a classified add campaign, or such. Blitzing the nationwide press with a large number of tiny notes, all one day. Maybe instead they could all contain a URL, pointing to a carefully written, agreed-upon, readable and fairly exhaustive collection of info about the issues at hand. Well, maybe they shouldn't all point to the same machine.... Ferget just signing petitions, dammit. Petitions are for wimps. Ask folks to participate by buying an ad. I mean, communication is what a lot of us here specialize in. And in our protocols, we have Alice and Bob writing out hundreds of anonymous money orders, broadcasting public keys via radio from prison, and hiding love letters in GIFs of farm animals. Surely there's enough imagination here to turn even a small fund into a very effective PR campaign. -Caj
Jeff
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