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Thursday, April 13 2000

Salon

"Austin Hill, president of Zero-Knowledge, opened the conference like a true techno-believer, quoting John Gilmore as saying, 'I want to guarantee [privacy] with physics and mathematics, not with laws.' " First of all, if Mr. Hill is going to say dumb things like this then his company needs to spend a little more on physics and methematics, instead of an IPO-driven ad campaign, because your product is slower than molasses. Secondly, if Mr. Hill is going to say dumb things like this, then I have to seriously question whether he and his company are more concerned with my privacy than they are with simply capitalizing on my concerns about privacy.

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Your door is ajar. Your door is ajar. Your door is ajar.

My door is a jar? see also : the frigid little "boop" [that] replaced the sensual, gears-meshing "cha-ching".

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