>Engineering; Brian LaMacchia, graduate student in Computer Science; ~~~~~~~~~ Stoopid question: is the above-mentioned LaMacchia any relation to the LaMacchia who got busted for running the illicit fsp site? Yes, Brian is the elder brother. I asked him right after David was charged if he thought there was any connection, like using his brother to put pressure on him about the key servers. He said he was fairly sure it was entirely independent. Personally I don't rule out MIT internecine warfare and personal grudges. University politics can get as dirty as the real thing at times, but I think we can rule out *real* politics in this. G
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Personally I don't rule out MIT internecine warfare and personal grudges. University politics can get as dirty as the real thing at times, but I think we can rule out *real* politics in this.
"University politics is so vicious simply because there is so little at stake." <-- reasonable accurate misquote University politics are normally much dirtier than the real thing, and much harder to stay out of if you spend more than 4 years at an institution. The battles over office space alone can make smear campaigns via TV ads in a congressional race look like a friendly debate. Still, it seems from the outside that there wasn't much toe-stepping going on at MIT with regard to their PGP release. That's nice to see. Perhaps, for once, the internal politics were calmer than the external storm of paranoia? :-) Richard
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