Cpunks War Dance, Feinstein Hari-Kari

http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/090697patent.html A Patent Falls, and the Internet Dances By Peter Wayner

From the beginning, though, patent 4,200,770 was different. This Saturday night a group of computer scientists, Internet fanatics and Beltway politicos will gather in Washington, D.C.; Silicon Valley; and Boston to celebrate the end of the patent granted to Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman for a way to encrypt data.

---------- http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/090697feinstein.html Feinstein's Remarks Rankle Constituents By Laurie J. Flynn If Dianne Feinstein, California's voice in the U.S. Senate, were looking for the fastest way to alienate her most powerful block of voters, she may have found it this week.