Media Sugestions, History of Clipper and Conspiracy theories
RE: Press Blitz I have found from experience, with some success, that the best way to handle press if you to contact local press and present yourself as a local expert on the subject. This gives them a local connection for their stories. You should have apack ready to send them, including copies of the White House documents, and a 1 page fact sheet of your own pointing out the problems with the proposal. Present yourself as a local computer scientist who sees the deeper issues behind this proposal and wants to air them. The major national newspapers are already covering this but its the smaller local papers that most people read. Only a few million people total read the NY Times, Washinging Post etc. Thinks of the millions that read their local papers and get to them. If they respond, this will be killed. History of Clipper: As I mentioned before, Iwas at the NIST press Conference on Fri. They responded to a question by saying that they had been working on this for 4 years and had been implimenting it for 14 months. Suggestion for campaign name: Clip the Clipper! Mailing List: No CPSR, etc. were not involved as a cabal supporting this dingbat proposal. If you beliueve that then go back to reading your endless JFK/CIA/Mafia/aliens conspiracy theory books and let the rest of us go on living in the real world. They have put together a very slick electronic media blitz here, sending the proposal to every applicable newsgroup etc. Dave Banisar CPSR Washington Office
In message <9304181016.AA32068@hacker2.eff.org>, Dave Banisar writes:
RE: Press Blitz
I have found from experience, with some success, that the best way to handle press if you to contact local press and present yourself as a local expert on the subject. This gives them a local connection
This seems to be an EXCELLENT idea. I wholeheartedly think that every cypherpunk with a strong knowledge of crypto (I haven't a strong knowledge yet-- still a newbie) contact the local press and offer your services as a local crypto-expert. I think that I probably know 10-15 times more than the general public about crypto, and it also seems that most of the people on this list know about 10-15 times more about crypto than myself. Thus there's a HUGE gulf of knowledge which must be remedied. -- | Sameer Parekh-zane@genesis.MCS.COM-PFA related mail to pfa@genesis.MCS.COM | | Apprentice Philosopher, Writer, Physicist, Healer, Programmer, Lover, more | | "Be God" - Me __ "Specialization is for Insects" - Robert A. Heinlein ____/ \_____________/ \____________________________________________________/
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