[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Bernstein! Where are YOU!
I have never heard of such an individual, and I strongly suspect I
would have heard of them. I believe you have the name and details
wrong if the individual you are looking for exists at all.
Perry
Peter F Cassidy says:
> Friends - and Bernstein,
> - I am a writer on assignment from the Economist writing about a
> certain cryptographers' tussle with the State Department, a fellow who is
> known around the beltway crypto-anarchy, privacy,
> niceness-on-the-Internet advocacy crowds as Bernstein. I have the outline
> of the case from the attorney's handling it. But my editors would really
> like to be able to name the party and sketch his background. All I have
> now is a last name, that he is a professor/and/or graduate student at UC
> Berkeley and is being roughed up by the State Department. Can anyone here
> - or the hero of the hour himself - come forward and help me complete my
> assignment?
> - Regards,
> - Peter Cassidy
>
> - PS: By the way, thanks to the guys who helped me shore up some
> basic concepts for the pieces I've done for OMNI and the Covert Action
> Quarterly that have touched on cryptography. Weirdly, one editor actually
> knew the fellow from Texas that I'd interviewed on technical points.
> (They worked together on a newspaper. What a ruck!)
>