CDR: Re: ZKS goes GAK

[Adam Shostack]

This is just plain silly.

If I thought Zero-Knowledge had been subverted, or was shipping or
encouraging GAK, I would quit.  I'm still here.

Adam


On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 08:25:01PM +0100, Anonymous Remailer wrote:
| Risking to fall into the doomsayer trap, I would call this a
| classical "bait  switch" technique.
| 
| Bait was a genuine product, probably developed by the genuine
| company and people.
| 
| Switch happened later, when men with guns decided to pick up
| this thing.
| 
| But what really pisses me off is that seemengly intelligent
| people keep on ranting about their intentions. Who the fuck
| cares what the intentions are/were ? Establishing trust with
| the crypto-savvy is what ZKS did. That asset is owned by
| whoever owns the company, not by hired hands. And the use of
| that asset will be whatever they decide.
| 
| Creating such an asset brings responsibility, and ZKS folks failed
| there: their work will be used for other purposes, and there is
| nothing they can do about it.
| 
| Assuming that one can make money by providing protection from
| the people that print that money is just plain silly.

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