Re: Help A Novice Understand
Someone said that Sternlight is a high-placed govt official. I don't believe this. I think he is a retired old fart with a home computer and an internet acct.
Having been naive enough to actually read a number of his posts regarding PGP-related topics on the usenet groups, I would likewise be amazed if "Dr. Sternlight" was indeed a 'highly placed' govt official, if for no other reason than it would be inconceivable for any branch of our government that's supposed to operate in secret to allow the stream of effluent that he generates over the net to appear _with attribution_. A wanna-be net-cop with too much time on his hands, perhaps, but a high government offical in a super-secret agency??? NOT! ------------------------------------------------------------------ R. J. Harvey (email: harveyrj@vt.edu) PGP key 0BADDDB5 (82 42 53 EA 97 B0 A2 B2 FC 92 90 BB C2 26 FD 21) Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of my employer
cp's, matt just mentioned that remailer@soda doesn't accept "Request-Remailing-To" header lines (which explains why i thought it was dead) and i note that not all other remailers accept "Anon-Send-To:". anarchy has it's place in our lives but, it would be nice to cut down on sode come in remailing and ping scripts. the three close to standard headers seem to be "Anon-Send-To:", "Request-Remailing-To:", and "X-Anon-To:". it would be more convenient :) for all remailers to either allow all three or settle on one standard (nfl). thanks, steve ------ ** stephen willey DoD# 0769, 1Kspt=5.80, prez IBMC * '92 CFM-2 ** ** willey@seattleu.edu pgp key on server * '81 GS450 ** ** "The tree of liberty must from time to time be * '73 RD350 ** ** refreshed by the blood of patriots and tyrants." t. jefferson **
Someone said that Sternlight is a high-placed govt official. I don't believe this.
(That someone was me, folks.) According to Tommy <nobody@soda.berkeley.edu> David Sternlight is a member of the council on foreign relations (pg. 176 of the 1993 Annual Report of the CFR) The following Executive Branch officials are also members of this organization: William J. Clinton, President Lloyd Cutler, Counsel to the President George Stephanopoulos, Senior Advisor David Gergen, Assistant to the President for Communications W. Anthony Lake, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Samuel R. Berger, Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Adm. William Crowe, Jr., Chairman, Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board John H. Gibbons, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, Chief of Staff, Army \ Gen. Merrill A. McPeak, Chief of Staff, Air Force > Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Carl E. Mundy, Commandant, Marine Corps / R. James Woolsey, Director of Central Intelligence Adm. William O. Studeman, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Chairman, National Intelligence Council **Stephan Breyer, Current nominee to the Supreme Court **Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve (Paranoid commentary by Tommy edited out) R. J. Harvey writes
I would likewise be amazed if "Dr. Sternlight" was indeed a 'highly placed' govt official, if for no other reason than it would be inconceivable for any branch of our government that's supposed to operate in secret to allow the stream of effluent that he generates over the net to appear _with attribution_.
Compared to your typical high government official, David Sternlight is a genius. Indeed if they were all as smart as he is, I would be slightly worried - but only very slightly. :-) -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our | property, because of the kind of animals that we | James A. Donald are. True law derives from this right, not from | the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. | jamesd@netcom.com
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