CDR: Re: Zero Knowledge changes business model to Split Key Escrow(NSA-Key (press release)

[petro]

>On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Adam Shostack wrote:
>
>>On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 04:07:18PM +0100, cyphrpnk wrote:
>
>>| p.s. that freedom source code 2.0 for linux I was porting to BSD
>>| I guess will go into the bit bucket!! 1984 speak my ass!!
>>
>>Sorry to hear that.  I guess your porting the code isn't enough for
>>you to trust it.  Odd.
>>
>>Adam
>
>The trust issue is not the code, the trust issue is the company.
>If he doesn't feel that the company is committed to maintaining
>appropriate levels of privacy, he chooses not to expend labor in
>support of the company's software.  And he may trust version 2,
>without trusting the company to produce a version 3 that he can
>in good conscience recommend to anyone to use.
>
>I have designed and built code for free for people who told me
>they were going to use it one way -- and sent it to /dev/null when I
>discovered that they intended to use it another.  It's as simple
>as that.  These days, I tend to restrict my coding-for-free effort
>to projects that will be useful *only* in the ways I think are
>beneficial to society at large, or to projects that, used by everyone
>according to their own whim, will at least cause society more good
>than harm. (Note, I did not say "nations" or "governments" or

	"The street finds it's own uses for things".


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