CDR: Re: CueCat tells tales...

Peter, this deal was inked by Wired magazine's marketing folks, and I have precisely zero contact with them. In other words, I have no clue, but can probably forward you in the right direction. --Declan At 12:15 9/20/2000 -0400, Peter Trei wrote:

At 12:27 PM -0400 9/20/00, Declan McCullagh wrote:
I guess this really does mark the transmogrification of "Wired" into a Panopticon-friendly corporatocracy. (Not that I ever expected otherwise of a company driven by glossy ads. The crypto and anarchy stuff is just a hint of danger to increase the sex appeal so more ads can be sold.)
Sounds like another chance for "mixes" at physical meetings. Put your Cue Cat in a bowl with a bunch of others. Of course, folks may not want more physical spam arriving in their mailboxes. Or provide false addresses. Perhaps the addresses of Cue Cat or Wired staff?
Being able to fake sincerity is essential to operating in the modern Internet business environment. Platitudes about customer privacy are necessary. Remember eToys. BTW, I just flipped through a copy of "Wired" in one of our bookstores. First time I've done so in a couple of years. Still dominated by ads, and blurbs on "cool stuff" that doesn't look very interesting to me. When "Wired" came out, it was heavily criticized for its "ransom note" style, and its clutter and visual confusion. Interestingly, now the very news stands themselves have become exemplars of this visual confusion: go into any "Borders" or "Barnes and Noble" and see literally 1500 magazines crowding the shelves. A dozen magazines on skateboarding, several dozen on "style".... magazines for women, for persons of peircing, for transgendered pizza deliverypersons, for any conceivable group. The whole news stand looks like a ransom note. --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.

At 10:01 AM -0700 on 9/20/00, Tim May wrote:
The whole news stand looks like a ransom note.
--Tim May
Definitely one for my .sig file... Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "The whole news stand looks like a ransom note." --Tim May
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Declan McCullagh
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R. A. Hettinga
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Tim May