Re: Netscape

[Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>]

Sandy Sandfort wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 21 Jul 1996, Tom Weinstein wrote:
> 
>> What I object to is anonymous activists who perform acts at no risk
>> to themselves which make it harder for those of us who are trying to
>> bring strong crypto to everyone.
> 
> Personally, I think it was a good idea for the American Colonists
> to shoot at the British from behind rocks and trees.  As Tom
> pointed out in his post, there are relatively few Cypherpunks.
> We all do what we can, in whatever way best suits are temprament,
> talents and acceptible risk level.  There is no single tao; there
> are many paths.  For Netscape, dialog and negotiations may be the
> best way to promote privacy, for Zimmermann, it was guerilla
> programming, for others it might be high-tech monkey-wrenching.
> To each his own.  As far as I can see, they are all trying to
> bring strong crypto to everyone.

I agree with you 100%.  Note that while the American Colonists were
shooting at the British, they didn't take their friends and pin them to
trees as decoys.

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You should only break rules of style if you can    | Tom Weinstein
coherently explain what you gain by so doing.      | tomw@netscape.com