Re: Four horsemen skew Internet
This is an off-topic rant. Anyone who wants to make me happy will convince the NYT to investigate the following question: How did Magaziner get to be "Clinton's Top Internet Adviser"? Last I knew, he was the Clintons' "Top Health Care Adviser". That is, after he was Rick Miller's $1k/hr "Top Wang Labs Turnaround Adviser", 1 year before they declared bankruptcy. For a guy with such a string of successes, he seems to keep popping up someplace new. At 01:33 PM 10/7/97 -0500, jbugden@alis.com wrote:
Excerpted from the following NY Times article:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/100797encrypt.html
Clinton's Top Internet Adviser Says U.S. Encryption Policy Is Unformed
Magaziner took The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal to task for what he characterized as sensationalizing negative aspects of the Internet. An analysis of the newspapers' front-page coverage of the global computer network in the last year, he said, revealed that the four most popular words or phrases in such articles were "drug deal," "stalker," "bomb maker" and "pornography." Such coverage, he asserted, had led to a popular image of the Internet that was fundamentally skewed and that made arguing for market-driven solutions difficult.
At 3:35 pm -0400 on 10/7/97, Lyle Seaman wrote:
Last I knew, he was the Clintons' "Top Health Care Adviser". That is, after he was Rick Miller's $1k/hr "Top Wang Labs Turnaround Adviser", 1 year before they declared bankruptcy. For a guy with such a string of successes, he seems to keep popping up someplace new.
So, what you're telling us is, having Good Ol' Ira in charge of crypto is *good* news... "There's no law like *no* law" and all that... Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: http://www.fc98.ai/
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