Re: Exporting crypto from Japan
Adam Back writes:
I am pleased that you are discussing with us crypto politics in Japan... we have few contributors from Japan in the past.
Yeah, surprising, isn't it, considering how open and welcoming the cypherpunks have been to foreigners and minority races... Actually Adam Back should be nominated for cypherpunk of the year. Unlike a blowhard do-nothing like Timothy "Chop-chop" May (and now we know what the C stands for, don't we?), Adam actually accomplishes things. His 3-line RSA has dramatized the absurdity of the export controls like nothing else. He built a working prototype of an eternity server while everybody else just talked about it. He's been a leader in the fight to oppose PGP GAKware. He has strong political views but is not motivated by hatred and fear. Adam doesn't get nearly the respect he deserves, probably because he's not much of a wordsmith. Tim May's sophistry is good enough to pull the wool over most people's eyes. But look deeper and you'll see that Adam's heart is pure. That's worth far more than May's skill at artfully wrapping his garbage.
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Adam Back writes:
I am pleased that you are discussing with us crypto politics in Japan... we have few contributors from Japan in the past.
Yeah, surprising, isn't it, considering how open and welcoming the cypherpunks have been to foreigners and minority races...
Actually Adam Back should be nominated for cypherpunk of the year. Unlike a blowhard do-nothing like Timothy "Chop-chop" May (and now we know what the C stands for, don't we?), Adam actually accomplishes things. His 3-line RSA has dramatized the absurdity of the export controls like nothing else. He built a working prototype of an eternity server while everybody else just talked about it. He's been a leader in the fight to oppose PGP GAKware. He has strong political views but is not motivated by hatred and fear.
Adam doesn't get nearly the respect he deserves, probably because he's not much of a wordsmith. Tim May's sophistry is good enough to pull the wool over most people's eyes. But look deeper and you'll see that Adam's heart is pure. That's worth far more than May's skill at artfully wrapping his garbage.
So when is the marriage planed?? Are you and Adam registered at Harrod's so I can send a gift? - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNHGMA49Co1n+aLhhAQGmqwP/bBf0Hf89+rWaPIWW9Y/zhC/xgaITpJv5 +sGDK7d/4aBup+nLHpA7P7TFkhGIO1QA71bK8RcrIPbD2HEYt9TV6E3B5joDRady ZDluYBw5ymhuiwXd/aHf9NTcP5NFUm0ThSyh5mRNlzkzbMyCyT7oQUYWRMbvm6tX 7Q1L5PIAmYo= =0hkK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Anonymous
Adam doesn't get nearly the respect he deserves,
Adam Back gets LOTS of respect from me. He's exremely kewl. Since I obviously have a little more time right now than usual, I wrote a prototype "Stalingrad" exploit last weekend (for Winsock - a Unix version shouldn't be too far away). Anyone wants to test it? --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps
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