Cpunks War Dance, Feinstein Hari-Kari

[John Young <jya@pipeline.com>]

http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/090697patent.html

A Patent Falls, and the Internet Dances

By Peter Wayner

>From the beginning, though, patent 4,200,770 was different. This
Saturday night a group of computer scientists, Internet fanatics and
Beltway politicos will gather in Washington, D.C.; Silicon Valley; and
Boston to celebrate the end of the patent granted to Whitfield Diffie
and Martin Hellman for a way to encrypt data. 

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http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/090697feinstein.html

Feinstein's Remarks Rankle Constituents 

By Laurie J. Flynn

If Dianne Feinstein, California's voice in the U.S. Senate, were
looking for the fastest way to alienate her most powerful block of
voters, she may have found it this week.