[2672] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
RE: SecureOffice
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank O'Dwyer)
Tue May 12 21:15:37 1998
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 01:21:01 +0100
To: Jay Holovacs <holovacs@idt.net>
From: "Frank O'Dwyer" <fod@brd.ie>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980512192007.006bf058@idt.net>
At 19:20 12/05/98 -0400, you wrote:
>No, a better method of civil disobedience would be to get it on as many
>foreign servers as possible.
For this to work wouldn't you have to show that the 'foreign' hosts
didn't just download it from the original site?
Still it could be a good publicity stunt - especially if many U.S.
sites linked to these servers, and it showed up as a hot item
in altavista or whatever.
Cheers,
Frank.
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>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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