[nelson at crynwr.com: Re: NSA knows who you've called.]

R.A. Hettinga rah at shipwright.com
Wed May 17 09:26:22 PDT 2006


At 4:07 PM +0200 5/17/06, nelson at crynwr.com wrote:

>First they came for the terrorists, and I said nothing because I
>wasn't a terrorist.  Then they came for my phone calls, and I said
>nothing because I had nothing to hide.  Then they came for the
>cryptographers, and I said nothing because I coulldn't even spel the
>word.  Now I can't hide anything.

"When the hares made speeches in the assembly and demanded that all should
have equality, the lions replied, "Where are your claws and teeth?"  --
attributed to Antisthenes in Aristotle, 'Politics', 3.7.2

As someone around here once said, cypherpunks write code.

Cheers,
RAH
who quit the cryptography list since this all began because all they talk
about is legislation. It's like someone snuck in and re-keycapped the 'C'
for 'c'.

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