Re: Censorship through proxy

[Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>]

At 06:12 PM 8/6/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:
>Sing Sing (the country is now a prison, so...) is one of the states we
>should think about targetting for "special attention." Not in the sense of
>violence, but in the sense of offering help to freedom fighters, those who
>want to use stego, web proxies, etc.

I've been thinking of starting a "How to Defeat a Government page to pull
together some of the anti-Sysadmin resources on the Net.  "Your government
-- just a rouge sysadmin."

>I wonder what would happen if "Computers, Freedom, and Privacy '98" was
>held in Sing Sing?

It would be smaller going out than coming in.  Singapore's retired president
tried to get William Safire into town for a "debate" about whether he was
still running the place via his son.  Safire didn't take the bait.  He joked
about it in his column.  

DCF