On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, Arun Mehta wrote:
Look around you: while "civilized", "white" and "man" might characterize the cypherpunks. And how does it matter? I'm suggesting an e-mail course that
I'm trying to get a "civilised white woman" to learn to use cryptography. At least, I think she is is civilised -- she paid for lunch for me one day. She is female, though that doesn't preclude a previous sex-change operation, or two. She has a pale skin, and blue eyes, and blond hair, but that doesn't mean she isn't Jewish, like Hitler's Poster Child of the Aryan Race was. Her eyes may have been colored by wearing colored contact lenses, and her hair may have been bleached. I assume she is white, since she has a pale skin. An official of the former regime in South Africa might well have been able to classify her as "Cape Colored", "Other Colored", "Griqua of Rehobath" or any of the 47 plus racial classifications that they used. So no, it doesn't matter who reads it, or who writes it, distributes it, etc --- so long as it gets done. << I don't know who is being quoted in the following line. >
chances are they are already doing things along those lines. If they are, its only in pockets, and they are doing an awful job of telling people about it if none of us has heard. The Internet is still very
They might be doing things the way Brother Andrew did, in smuggling Bible behind the Iron Curtain. Not telling the world at large, to protect the smugglers, untill after most of their team was arted/detained/granted "persona non gratis" status behind the Iron Curtain.
or the greatness of Kim Jong Il, and in the process upload all you know about the scandal, untraceable to you.
ROTFLOL. OTOH, it will get by pretty much any censor. << These graphics are of our Most Beloved Leader. This must be an honourable upright citizen. And stenographed in them, is the weekly edition of what "Most Beloved Leader" has done against his population. >>
What I have in mind is as follows: "Building a Cryptobook" lists a number of software packages: packaged together as a course or a book, a sort-of "Crypto for Dummies."
Package it as book, if any government does clamp down on the distribution of it as an E-Mail course. Or publish a book as a supplement. xan jonathon grafolog@netcom.com AOL coasters are unique, and colourful. Collect the entire set.