Chatter Punks

[R.A. Hettinga]

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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:25:10 -0800
To: cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net
From: John Young <jya at pipeline.com>
Subject: Chatter Punks
Sender: owner-cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net

Maybe it's been mentioned here but the book, "Chatter: Dispatches
from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping," by Patrick Radden
Keefe mentions cypherpunks and a slew of people who've been around
here, or discussed, cited, admired, attacked and hated here.

Crypto is featured, along with the TLAs, the fools who run them, the
lackies who suck their tits, the congress critters who give them a free
pass no matter what fuck-ups damage the US and the unwary targets
of spooks, 9/11 only one of many.

It's a "lively read," and a lot of its smooth-narrative content won't be
new to avid readers of disputatious, thankfully ungrammatically
cpunks, but it does get the slick word out to the public in an easy
to swallow fashion.

For us jacket addicts, there are favorable blurbs by David Kahn and
Seymour Hersh.

Keefe calls John Gilmore, Duncan Campbell, and other uninstitutionalized
insurgents outcasts, but IEDs are where it's at, right?

He also claims the NSA is a pitiful giant, protected against
change by ever increasing secrecy blessed by congress and
the administration, and that most of its new hires are security
guards to protect against knowing what's inside, not the
personnel truly needed.

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R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah at ibuc.com>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
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"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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