At 08:48 PM 10/3/96 -0400, Robert Hettinga wrote:

At 7:13 pm -0400 10/3/96, Timothy C. May wrote:

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"Macintosh, the Surveillance System for the Rest of Us."

(Why Apple would go along with this, while Microsoft and Netscape are apparently not playing ball, is incomprehensible to me. Apple risks alienating its remaining core user base, who often characterize Microsoft as "the Borg." So, Apple capitulates, while MS does not. I guess the "Macintosh Crypto Forum" didn't do a lot of good, did it?)

Ouch.

My first reaction to the above was to say, "Oh, Yeah??? Well, you're ugly, buddy, and your mother dresses you funny, too!" But, I won't upset the decorum of so august a forum with such eggregious classlessness. Not here on cypherpunks. :-).

If one were to be completely uncharitable in the interpretation of Tim's most recent outbreak of vitriol here, it would seem that he's offended that he wasn't asked first to be the keynote at MacCrypto, the conference a bunch of us had at Apple a month ago, which, I might add, was a considerable success.

I know what probably happened. A new high-level manager at Apple picked up some old dusty videotape off the shelf, labelled "Super Bowl 1984", played it and said, "Yah know, that guy on the screen was making a hell of a lot of sense until that trouble-makin' bitch smashed it!" Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com