🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <2n7bo9$h7r@panix.com>, Clay Shirky <clays@panix.com> wrote:
>In <CnDuM4.JIq@reptiles.org> jim@reptiles.org (Jim Mercer) writes:
>>i don't think the whole episode was a good thing for Steve Jackson Games
>>itself.
>
>I'll let Steve speak for himself on that score, but your argument that
>even though the kind of government intrusion steve suffered is
>illegal, we shouldn't do the things that the government doesn't want
>us to do anyway seems to me to be giving up to their strong-arm
>tactics. Giving up is something steve has *not* done. He is still
>appealing the absurd failure to find damage under the ECPA
>interception rules, and I think he would be horrified to see his name
>bruited about as Exhibit A in "Why you should do what the Government
>wants you to do."

i'm not saying "do what the government wants you to do", i'm just saying
don't intentionally jeprodize my system, just so you can prove a point.

in this, i am aiming at the type of person who specifically aims ban breaking
articles at canadian groups/mailing lists, just to cause a stir.

ask steve jackson if he will allow his system to become the international
archive for PGP.

hell, he's been up against the government before, shouldn't be a problem.

and if he doesn't want to participate, put pgp in a tmp dir there anyways,
and tell the world to come get it.

i'm sure steve will be more than happy with your efforts to break the
government's clipper proposal, even though you are risking getting his
machines seized again.

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