Xref: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu comp.org.eff.talk:17026 alt.privacy.clipper:18 sci.crypt:15570 Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!transfer.stratus.com!coyoacan.sw.stratus.com!tarl From: tarl@coyoacan.sw.stratus.com (Tarl Neustaedter) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,alt.privacy.clipper,sci.crypt Subject: Re: Organized Lobbying for Cryptography Date: 21 Apr 1993 03:51:01 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering Lines: 17 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <1r2gb5$h0r@transfer.stratus.com> References: <4014.Apr2003.03.4093@silverton.berkeley.edu> <1993Apr20.213718.23129@husc3.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coyoacan.sw.stratus.com In article kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M Kadie) writes: >[...] >>The EFF has been associated with efforts to prevent the banning of sex >>and pictures newsgroups at various universities. >[...] > >So what? Justices William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, John Paul >Stevens, and Byron White are associated with [...] It means that the EFF's public stance is complicated with issues irrelevant to the encryption issue per se. There may well be people who care about the encryption issue who don't care to associate themselves with the network erotica issue (or may even disagree with the EFF's position). Ending up with pallets of baggage to drag around is a frequent problem with permanent organizations. EFF is no exception. Tarl