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Re: CDT Policy Post 3.08 - Senate Committee Approves Key Crypto Bill (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Geer)
Tue Jun 24 20:12:03 1997
To: Charles Platt <cp@panix.com>
Cc: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Jun 1997 19:44:33 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 19:29:28 -0400
From: Dan Geer <geer@world.std.com>
> From: "Shabbir J. Safdar" <shabbir@vtw.org>
>
> We owe them a great big debt of thanks, not the derision that goes with
> Alice in Wonderland political punditry.
They did what they did because they thought it was in their interests;
otherwise they wouldn't have done it. We owe them nothing, and I am
horrified to see this phrase. How much do you owe a parasite that tries
to negotiate with other parasites to take slightly less of your blood
than they originally expected?
Statements similar to yours have been made so many times, scolding
"extremists" for "not being realistic." I seem to remember something about
extremism in defense of liberty being no vice, and moderation no virtue.
Either way, if you compromise, you don't get what you want. That is
absolutely obvious. So why compromise?
I loathe compromise and always demand
the impossible. Thank God, there exist
colleagues who know when to hold 'em and
when to fold 'em. I flatter myself that
we are each essential to the other.
--dan
