Cool it, all. No personal attacks. Yosem, one of the moderators.
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Ali-Reza Anghaie <a...@packetknife.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:24 PM, carlo von lynX > <l...@time.to.get.psyced.org> wrote: >> On 11/21/2013 05:23 AM, Ali-Reza Anghaie wrote: >>> As it pertains to your response to me from over a month ago (below) - >>> we're just on different pages. I'm not arguing the strategic problem >>> statement, I'm saying you've made a tactical decision that was >>> damaging. *shrug* >> >> History will tell who is damaging the most, those who promote new >> solutions or those who, just like politicians, try to cling to a >> broken status quo. > > The status quo could also be said to "our" tendency to flitter from > one magical non-solution to another based on selfish ego and turf wars > and never sticking to the basics we took many years to get right. App > stores and toys. Oh - that would be you in that political anecdote. > > See? Two can play at that silly comparison and character argument > assassination. It's not valid ~either~ way. > > All I was saying is I disagreed with the tactical approach you took - > which is to declare something dead prematurely and without enough > context. > >>> Matters little now - so many new entrants into the ecosystem we're >>> already fighting the good fight against the bad fighters. Good luck, >>> Cheers, -Ali >> >> Fight? I didn't come to fight. I try to reduce the damage being done. > > I didn't mean you - I meant the flood of entrants into the "secure > email" or "email replacement" chain that have been enabled by generic > assassinations and false comparisons of other technology. > > Going back to my one of my original criticisms is that in the rush to > make this a ~tech~ issue we forgot to remind people that it's > primarily actually an OPSEC issue in most cases. If we're talking > ~history~ then you're on the wrong side of that fence at least - again > a ~TACTICAL~ comment because I'm sure you (and in YOU) know that OPSEC > plays heavily into it. I'm talking about the delivery of the message. > > I leave our particular sub-thread to you for the last word (should you > need / want it). Cheers and best wishes, -Ali > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of > list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > compa...@stanford.edu. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
