Re: please stop the Mitnick stuff

At 06:31 PM 1/6/96 -0500, Perry Metzger wrote:

This is cypherpunks, not Mitnick punks, Shimomura punks, or anything similar. I personally don't care about Kevin Mitnick, and he most certainly has little to no cryptography relevance at this point. Take it elsewhere.

C'mon, Perry, give it a break. Mitnick's case has to do with security issues as well as the violations of privacy and/or search and seizure the government used to arrest him. It may not be cryptography per se, but are you going to seriously argue that security, etc. is not encompassed in crypto issues? I found it interesting. If you didn't, then all you had to do was delete it. No one needs to read your personal crusade as *The One* who tells us what's relevant and what's not.