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Newsweek article info
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ernest Hua)
Mon Jun 1 10:33:54 1998
From: Ernest Hua <Hua@teralogic-inc.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Cc: Ernest Hua <Hua@teralogic-inc.com>
Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 16:40:42 -0700
The newsweek article is from the June 1, 1998 issue on page 60, for
those who are asking about it. The title has the word "Hackers" in it,
but I forgot exactly what it was.
The front page headline is "God vs Gangs".
Ern
-----Original Message-----
From: Ernest Hua
Sent: Friday, May 29, 1998 8:44 AM
To: cryptography@c2.net; cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Cc: Ernest Hua
Subject: Please write a letter to Newsweek
Please write a letter to Newsweek in response to their article
on cyber
attacks in their latest print edition of their magazine.
They are making the same mistake almost everyone in the
mainstream media
is making: Just repeating verbatim what "government sources"
are
feeding them.
There was not a shred of criticism hinting at what >20 years of
misguided export restrictions on encryption and deliberate
weakening of
US encryption products has cost the Internet, and the
"infrastructure",
in terms of self-protection.
The news media has their own constraints, so please do not frame
it in
terms of their own faults. At this point in time, a serious but
patient
education of the entire news media (not just the small,
technically
literate pockets of reporters) is far more effective than a few
inflammatory "Jack-Boot" editorials.
Also, the more responses the better, so please send in your
responses.
Use corporate letterhead if appropriate. But the most important
point
is to write and express your objective opinion!
Ern
