Re: Fighting Clipper III

[Declan McCullagh <declan@eff.org>]

You'll have trouble doing a successful boycott of RSA. What, you won't 
use Netscape Navigator or PGP?

-Declan


On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Jim McCoy wrote:

> Rich Burroughs <richieb@teleport.com> wrote:
> [...]
> >>>On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, John Young wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>    The New York Times, October 2, 1996, pp. D1, D8.
> >>>>    Executives of the International Business Machines
> >>>>    Corporation said late yesterday that they were still lining
> >>>>    up the final list of companies in the alliance. Those
> >>>>    involved will include Digital Equipment and smaller
> >>>>    data-security companies including RSA Data Security, Cylink
> >>>>    and Trusted Information Systems.
> >>>
> >>>We are in deep trouble.
> >>
> >>Wouldn't a letter-writing campaign be in order here?
> >[snip]
> >
> >The word "boycott" leaped into my mind.  I personally do not believe that I
> >will be buying products from any of these companies, as long as thay
> >participate in this GAK charade.
> 
> Such an initiative will need publicity and letter-writing early in the
> campaign will help us set the tone and points of debate on this issue.
> A boycott works best when everyone knows why and there are a few key
> phrases which can be used to get the message across.  Something like
> "company X is helping build big brother, boycott their products" or a
> few similar sound bites are needed fast.  The big brother inside stickers
> from the last campaign were nice, maybe people can come up with variations
> of various corporate logos or marketting phrases which help get the message
> across?
> 
> jim
> 
> 


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