Now there's some thinkin'... Cultural stego of crypto tools: "Hey, I'm with you guys all the way! Here, take this and stick it to those liberal democratic assholes who are corrupting our values!" "Uh, we ARE democrats, sir..." "Oh yeah, I knew that. Really. Take this and stick it to those warmongering Republican fucks!" -TD

From: coderman To: "R.A. Hettinga" CC: Justin , cypherpunks@jfet.org Subject: Re: [gnu@toad.com: May 24: National Day of Outrage at NSA/Telco surveillance] Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 15:23:57 -0700

On 5/23/06, R.A. Hettinga wrote:

...

... If you want to fuck the NSA, state, whatever, write code.

If you want to get fucked in the ass some more, wave a sign around some more.

i'd like to pass off previous legitimate criticisms on the lack of pervasive and popular crypto by claiming usability flaws as the culprit. but encouraging the public is surely some part of this effort.

how about handing out bootable CD's chock full of usable crypto goodness[1] to all those sign waving agitators so they might exercise a little personal responsibility for securing their privacy in addition to the masturbatory mob unity displays seeking redress and retraction from large, distant organizational structures who give two shits about that catchy slogan wielded impotently on ceder stick as if it were Excalibur itself expecting imminent victory over all of the world's ills...

1. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=136357&package_id=176062

an updated image with zPhone integrated would be nice; perhaps something i'll poke at in the near future unless someone else does it first. privacy knoppix needs a rebirth :)