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- From: jgarland@kean.ucs.mun.ca
- Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality: AntiAmericanism
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.141247.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
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- References: <1992Dec18.185048.23741@news.eng.convex.com> <1992Dec19.002110.17682@netcom.com> <1992Dec20.115904.14965@nntp.hut.fi> <1992Dec21.075152.13537@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:42:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.075152.13537@netcom.com>,
- strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight...
- > Jyrki (apt name) posts another anti-U.S. screed in which he says that
- > I must have been referring to violence done by the U.S. government
- > when I talk about lives lost or saved by cryptography during the war.
- >
- > I was not. I was talking about lives lost at Pearl Harbor, lives
- > saved at Midway, and lives saved by Enigma and Purple decrypts,
-
- !!!!
-
- German submariners and Japanese sailors may have a different point of view
- here...esp. in terms of 'lives saved' at Midway etc. [Please note that
- I'm an American as well...but death is death and cipher/codebreaking in war
- often _causes_ it. It's nice when it's the enemy's and not yours, but
- it's still death.] And we did (rightly, I affirm) cause it to happen. So
- where is he wrong?
-
- My point is that you don't have to be anti-American to state that
- superior--often American--technology in war is a killer. [Hell,
- ask Lee/Longstreet. They'll tell you.]
-
- John Garland
- jgarland@kean.ucs.mun.
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