Waco in cyberspace
Brett Chappell
bchappe%sunoco at relay.nswc.navy.mil
Wed Jun 15 06:53:58 PDT 1994
>
>In the June 6 issue of the New Yorker is an interesting story by
>John Seabrook (who did the email interview with Bill Gates) about
>getting flamed and how violated and uspset it made him. Lots of not
>explicitly stated suggestion that maybe somebody will need to control
>all this, and some very confusing material suggesting to the non-technical
>that viruses or worms may be sent via email messages. "Is this free speech?".
>But the chilling passage in the article is on page 77 where the writer says
>
>>Dr. Clinton C. Brooks, the N.S.A.'s lead scientist on the Clipper Chip
>>told me, "You won't have a Waco in Texas, you'll have a Waco in cyberspace.
>>You could have a cult, spaeking to each other through encyrption, that
>>suddenly erupts in society - well programmed, well organized - and then
>>suddenly disappears again."
>
>Getting scared yet?
>
>-Steve
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