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2002-05-26 Thread Curt Smith
It is strange that crypto was a lot more popular back when cryptography export was heavily controlled. Many people fought for their crypto rights, but cannot be bothered with encrypted e-mail. It is similar to securing the right to vote and then declining to do so. Lucky indicates that strong c

Re: NYT: Techies Now Respect Government

2002-05-26 Thread AARG! Anonymous
What really changed in the Valley is that the best are gone. There is always a very small number of real contributors, I'd say one in several hundreds, that shape the whole environment and dictate the overall mood. This was best seen in Xerox PARC, where sleazy Gilman Louie was selling fatherla

RE: NYT: Techies Now Respect Government

2002-05-26 Thread Lucky Green
Tim wrote: > On Sunday, May 26, 2002, at 10:07 AM, John Young wrote: > > > Thomas Friedman in the New York Times today: > > > > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/opinion/26FRIE.html > > > > Webbed, Wired and Worried, May 26, 2002 > > > > > pose these questions to techies. I found at le

Re: NYT: Techies Now Respect Government

2002-05-26 Thread John Young
Officials, and journalists, accustomed to handling civil unrest through police means, have to stretch to get their hands on national security threats, in particular what to do with military capabilities which are scaled for much greater threats than the police can handle. The military doesn't lik

Re: NYT: Techies Now Respect Government

2002-05-26 Thread Mike Rosing
On Sun, 26 May 2002, John Young wrote: > Thomas Friedman in the New York Times today: > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/opinion/26FRIE.html > > Webbed, Wired and Worried, May 26, 2002 [...] > Silicon Valley staunchly opposed the Clipper Chip, which > would have given the government a back-d

Re: NYT: Techies Now Respect Government

2002-05-26 Thread Tim May
On Sunday, May 26, 2002, at 10:07 AM, John Young wrote: > Thomas Friedman in the New York Times today: > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/opinion/26FRIE.html > > Webbed, Wired and Worried, May 26, 2002 > > pose these questions to techies. I found at least some of > their libertarian,

re: Jim-Bell-in-prison update

2002-05-26 Thread keyser-soze
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NYT: Techies Now Respect Government

2002-05-26 Thread John Young
Thomas Friedman in the New York Times today: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/opinion/26FRIE.html Webbed, Wired and Worried, May 26, 2002 I've been wondering how the entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley were looking at the 9/11 tragedy; whether it was giving them any pause about the wired world