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Re: A Pretty Good Story, from The Netly News
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Tue Dec 9 17:18:12 1997
In-Reply-To: <19971208153716.54223@alpha.jpunix.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 20:47:56 -0500
To: John Perry <perry@alpha.jpunix.com>
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
At 15:37 -0600 12/8/97, John Perry wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 12:03:11PM -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>> Now the complaining may stop, at least for a while. The
>> McAfee-PGP combo, called Network Associates, has dropped out of the
>> alliance. "I never would have allowed my own company to join the Key
>> Recovery Alliance," Zimmermann told me yesterday. "As soon as I found
>> out about McAfee being a member, I tried to do something about it."
>Did he give any details on exactly what he plans on doing?
I spoke with Phil at some length yesterday and today. What did he do about
McAfee and the Key Recovery Alliance? He got them to drop out, as I write
above. If you mean what will he be doing at "Network Associates," his title
for now will be Fellow. But I understand that's still being negotiated.
Things are in flux: the deal wasn't to close until today.
You might want to read the rest of the article at:
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0,1042,1617,00.html
-Declan
