NYT: Techies Now Respect Government

Sunder sunder at sunder.net
Tue May 28 04:39:20 PDT 2002


Sounds like more of the same kinds of words inserted into Phil Zimmermann
mouth by Ariana Cha to me.  Hmmm, smells like bullshit, looks like
bullshit, there's a bull looking a bit relieved a few feet away, I wonder
what it could be?


----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos---------------------------
 + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\
  \|/  :aren't security.  A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\
<--*-->:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you   \/|\/
  /|\  :masked killer, but  |don't email them, or put them on a web  \|/
 + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often.
--------_sunder_ at _sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------

On Sun, 26 May 2002, John Young wrote:

> Thomas Friedman in the New York Times today:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/opinion/26FRIE.html
> Webbed, Wired and Worried, May 26, 2002

<SNIP>
 
> 
> Silicon Valley staunchly opposed the Clipper Chip, which 
> would have given the government a back-door key to all 
> U.S. encrypted data. Now some wonder whether they 
> shouldn't have opposed it. John Doerr, the venture 
> capitalist, said, "Culturally, the Valley was already 
> maturing before 9/11, but since then it's definitely 
> developed a deeper respect for leaders and government
> institutions."





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