Anonymous writes:
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.
This isn't Libernet-d or something similar. This isn't where we discuss violations of search and seizure laws or thing of that kind. The world is full of injustice -- but this isn't the place to discuss it. Mitnick's case has very little (certainly at this point) to do with security, and never had anything to do with cryptography.
I found it interesting. If you didn't, then all you had to do was delete it.
When there are one or two small items posted on a topic thats no big deal. When its a lot of stuff, it becomes an enormous pain. Multiply the few seconds to read and digest enough of a message to know you should delete it by dozens of messages per mailing list per day and by a dozen mailing lists and you suddenly have an untenable waste of your time. Perry