Im in agreement with this. Dave, if you're going to stand up to the government, then DO it, and dont use it as an excuse to be a prick, otherwise you'll lose (have lost some already) the moral support we were prepared to give you.
Jonathan Walther On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Ian Jackson wrote: > Dave, you do seem to like stirring up trouble. I too am a > troublemaker, but I at least try to aim my trouble somewhere it will > do some good. > > If it were just me I'd be quite happy to put all the crypto stuff on > our US mirror sites. However, those mirror sites are doing us a > favour, and unfortunately we don't have an abundance of well-connected > sites willing to offer us space and willing to stand up to US > government pressure. > > I'd be happier, even, if our master site were in one of the parts of > Europe where we don't have laws (`unconstitutional' or otherwise) > against exporting cryptographic software electronically. > > Any change here needs people running sites to come forward. To those > of you who feel the issue is critical for you I say: go and find a > good selection of well-run, well-connected sites willing to take the > risk, and then we can talk about how bes to organise things. I'm sure > Bruce feels the same way. > > Ian. > >
