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RE: SecureOffice
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Holovacs)
Tue May 12 19:53:58 1998
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 19:20:07 -0400
To: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@securitydynamics.com>, <tkellar@fsp.fsp.com>,
cryptography@c2.net
From: Jay Holovacs <holovacs@idt.net>
In-Reply-To: <D104150098E6D111B7830000F8D90AE8017869@exna02.securitydyna
mics.com>
No, a better method of civil disobedience would be to get it on as many
foreign servers as possible.
Jay
At 03:17 PM 5/12/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Go ahead. Put it on your web page. But read this first.
>
>Belling the Cat
>The mice held a meeting to decide how to sound a warning of the
>approach of their great enemy, the Cat. Among many plans
>proposed, the favourite one was the suggestion that a bell be tied to
>the neck of the Cat. Whenever the Cat approached, the mice would
>be warned by the sound of the tinkling and run away and hide
>themselves in their holes. But when the mice tried to decide who
>would be the one to 'bell the Cat', there was no one willing to do it.
>
>Moral: It is easy to propose impossible remedies.
>
>--Aesop
>
>Peter Trei
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tkellar@fsp.fsp.com [SMTP:tkellar@fsp.fsp.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 1998 2:57 PM
>> To: cryptography@c2.net
>> Subject: Re: SecureOffice
>>
>>
>> At the risk of sounding ostentatious, would not civil
>> disobedience be the answer to Charles Booher's problem?
>> I.e., if everyone on this list, or even more, or other
>> lists, had a copy of SecureOffice available on their
>> web server, would not the government have a problem
>> with prosecution? Hey, I bet you could get lots of
>> Radical right and Left wing web page servers to offer
>> it too??? Don't they mistrust the government as much
>> as most cryptography developers? At least in the
>> relevant areas.
>>
>>
>> Thomas
>> --
>> Thomas Kellar w8twk Tkellar@fsp.com http://www.fsp.com
>> How can I wear the harness of toil, and sweat at the daily round,
>> While in my soul forever The drums of Pictdom sound? - REHoward
>
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