Re: Internet Privacy Guaranteed ad (POTP Jr.)

[IPG Sales <ipgsales@cyberstation.net>]

On Tue, 20 Feb 1996 lmccarth@cs.umass.edu wrote:

> IPG Sales writes:
> > Obviously you want to criticise without investigation. He who knows all, 
> >    knows little, or nothing accoring to Einstein.
> 

I apologize but I do believe that you prejudged it without bothering to 
inquire of us, or inquire further. We are now anxious to cooperate with 
cypherpunks and let them show us how silly the system is. We will cooperate
fully, with minor but we believe accpeptableimitations and subject 
to reciprocation. 


> That's a rather disingenuous statement. I read your press release, and then
> I spent a while browsing through everything that seemed germane on your
> web pages. But my investigation of all the material you had presented to the
> world yielded very little in the way of hard facts about the security of the 
> IPG system. I responded to what I'd been able to find.
> 
> Future technical investigations of IPG would be greatly aided if you placed
> on your web pages some of the technical details you have at last revealed
> here. I just checked your web pages again, and they still don't explain the
> actual workings of the system at all.
> 
> -Lewis	"You're always disappointed, nothing seems to keep you high -- drive 
> 	your bargains, push your papers, win your medals, fuck your strangers;
> 	don't it leave you on the empty side ?"  (Joni Mitchell, 1972)
> 
We will not post it to Internet, but we will provide it to the 
Cipherpunks, a large selected set choisen by Derek Atkins or 
his designee. 

Some men are as sure of their opinions as they are of what they know - 
Shakespeare.