On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 12:19:03AM -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>
> I don't think anyone has accussed Markoff of actually falsifying the emails
> exchanged between Mitnick and his accomplices and I refered to the book
> only to establish that the material was already in the public domain and
> not subject to any duty of confidence.
[ .. ]
> In response to Steve Mynott: the name cypherpunk is due to John
> Gilmore who was at the time agitating to get the crypto export laws
> lifted. The original agenda was to change society by writting code that
> protected privacy. John is not a mindless vandal. In fact if you had
> read the Markoff book you would know that Gilmore's house was
> one of Mitnick's targets.
I have read the book. Your memory fails you. There were no emails
from Mitnick in that book.
I think what you must be talking about are the intercepts of UNIX
talk sessions between kdm and jsz. These and more material appear
on http://www.takedown.com/
People talk shit in talk and irc sessions. Big deal. These guys
did what they did for fun.
Shimomura has done work for the NSA and is no friend of freedom.
I see the cypherpunk agenda as broader than mere privacy protection,
but rather the libertarian goal of the the destruction of the state
through technological means.
--
1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pineal.com/
the steady state of disks is full.
-- ken thompson
