My fellow Cypherpunks,
Tim May reports in a post:
http://www.inet-one.com/cyberpunks/current/msg00306.html
soon to be:
http://www.inet-one.com/cyberpunks/dir.2000.04.09-2000.04.15
>Federal prosecutors intend to charge the two men who illegally
>looked at Microsoft's "Front Page" software and thereby discovered
>a security hole.
Note: I am assuming that Tim May is not doing some kind of spoof
here. What he reports sounds like a sort of vicious fantasy.
What the 2 men did was a PERCEPTUAL crime. This crime is 100%
imaginary! However, the crime the U.S. will commit will be real.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IS A STATE ARTIFACT! Without the state it
would not exist as we know it.
The U.S. will commit two crimes. First, a crime against the
heros. Second, our right to know (this is a part of free speech).
It will also help to silence our watchdogs so that we may be better
enslaved. The crimes are both individual and collective.
There seems to be some class of moral error that is rarely
mentioned: Serving a small right at the expense of a large right.
This occurs when values contradict each other. It also occurs
often in U.S. when state crushes important and real rights while
using imaginary rights as the rational. The above is an instance of
this. The heros warned us of a substantial security threat. We have
few people who would be willing and able to find this threat for
us. Now they are going to be charged with an imaginary crime. The
service they did for society is completely ignored.
Yours Truly,
Gary Jeffers
BEAT STATE!!!!!
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