Jeff Weinstein wrote:

John Young wrote:

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Responding to msg by stripes@va.pubnix.com ("Josh M. Osborne") on Sun, 15 Oct 12:0 AM

The PR of Bugs Bounty is the aim, as the quick-market-adapter Netscape Chair speechified in FR.

Promoting the notion that hackers are earnestly attacking Netscape and reporting its bugs increases its credibility to the stock market porkers. Is that not why dear all-too-attentive Jeff has been assigned duty on this list, feeding peanuts to chimp hackers and champ newshacks?

I have not been "assigned duty" on this list. I'm here of my own free will. I want to keep up on whats going on in the cypherpunk world, and sometimes tap the expertise of the list. I'm not some corporate flack assigned here to "feed the chimps". My personal feelings definitely lean toward unimpeded strong crypto, personal privacy, freedom from govt. surveilence, etc., and I was interested in this stuff at a personal level before joining netscape, or working on security stuff.

--Jeff

So a reviewer stepped in and accused the rock star of having "sold out"... Does working as a programmer for a "major label" on a top-40 hit mean you're not true to your artistic roots any more? Or does "working within the system" permanently disqualify you from rebel/outcast status? OK, sorry, enough of the cliches. :-) Richard