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From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Subject: Re: The Escrow Database.
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 18:51:46 GMT
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David Sternlight (strnlght@netcom.com) wrote:
: In article <1993Apr22.170418.15799@news.eng.convex.com> gardner@convex.com
: (Steve Gardner) writes:

...cascades elided to preserve our sanity....

: That wasn't my point. My point is that your implied position about the "Waco
: Massacre" is an assertion cum political position. According to a CNN poll,
....
: What you call the "Big Brother Chip" is right now a proposal under
: discussion, and it is not yet clear that strong crypto is going to be
: banned.

Just to set the record straight, Steve Gardner was not the author of
the bit you quoted--I was. Steve just took issue with David's
characterization of my words as "pernicious nonsense."

I won't further comment on my own views...folks either support 'em or
they don't, and the lines in question were neither central to the
points I was making in my original post nor to the important debate
here in sci.crypt and elsewhere.


-Tim May, who continues to hold the same views but doesn't feel like
debating politics

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