Douglas Barnes wrote:
It is profoundly irritating to find this splashed on the front page of the NYT, contributing to the FUD that largely benefits luddites like First Virtual and those, like MS$, pushing for a return to proprietary networks. (One quote from FV marketing director Pierre Wolfe at the ML conference I recently attended, "The Internet may end up as a ghetto, where people are afraid to engage in commercial activity.")
It is a fact of life now that there are many journalists lurking on cypherpunks, and other places on the net. I have been directly contacted by three reporters just in the past week. Our PR department tells me that cypherpunks, and my name, are routinely mentioned by reporters these days. I've seen my postings to this list quoted without my prior knowlege in at least one news article. I wish that folks sending to this list would realize this new world exists, as much as it sucks, and spend a bit more time double checking before posting anything alarmist. In particular, there have been several recent false alarms regarding netscape security sent to this list and others. While I don't want to sweep real security holes under the rug, I think it hurts both cypherpunk and netscape interests for false claims to be coming out of this list. Just to make things clear, I'm not an official spokesperson for Netscape and anything sent to this list is my personal opinion. --Jeff -- Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist Netscape Communication Corporation jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw Any opinions expressed above are mine.