Clarification -- Re: Re: Repression in Austria over PGP keys

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

________________________________________
From: Richard Forno [rforno () infowarrior org]
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 2:06 PM
To: David Farber
Cc: ip; sjmanning () fymc com
Subject: Clarification -- Re: [IP] Re:   Repression in Austria over PGP keys

Dave,

A clarification to you and your readers is called for regarding Steven
Manning's comment about an item I posted to the IP list yesterday.
Steven apparently does not realize that I did NOT write the article
--- I made no judgment call about the content of the article, but
merely passed it along to IP as a possible item of interest to your
readers.

I resent the accusation by Steven that those are my words.  As you and
others know, were I to pen an article, it would be published under my
own name and posted on my own website -- and not through the veneer of
bloggish anonymity.  If he has problems with the article's content,
may I suggest he contact 'Anonymous' on the site cited in the article
link to voice his concerns and not blame the messenger.   Indeed, as
Steven says, homework is indispensable.

Thanks for making this known to your readers,

Rick


On Jul 10, 2008, at 13:17 , David Farber wrote:

> ________________________________________
> From: Steven J. Manning [sjmanning () fymc com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 11:54 AM
> To: David Farber
> Subject: Re: [IP] Repression in Austria over PGP keys
>
> Homework is indispensable....
>
> Good morning, Dave.
>
> For IP if you wish....
>
> Richard Forno's article is interesting more for its insufficiencies
> than substance.  And for its uniquely limited focus.
>
> First, Mr. Forno focuses on the "PGP" component of the matter.
> Perhaps that is the relevancy that can tie the story to your
> uniquely well informed and positioned readers.  This reader, at
> least, would benefit from a bit of homework on this event.  What
> activities were the alleged wrongdoers engaged in to provoke such
> regulatory action.  Or over-reaction.
>
> On the ubiquitous *other side*, as to "action" by Austrian law
> enforcement, and this may or may not be germane to Mr. Forno's
> thesis, Austrian laws provide a plethora of draconian enforcement
> powers for its various law enforcement agencies.  And do so for a
> variety of "criminal enterprises".
>
> The methodology is more that a bit schizophrenic.  On one hand,
> Austria has and continues to tolerate remnants of its remarkably
> bloody WWII past.  On the other, it is highly unwise for its neo-
> nazzi, skin-head youth to hold a rally without a proper license.
> Their riot police do not use rubber bullets.
>
> Perhaps Mr. Forno can enlighten us about the activities of this
> group that elicited this rather typical law enforcement response.
> Then we can all be indignant for all the right reasons, including
> rights to privacy, presumption of innocence and all that.
>
> Please know that I write this with a very large measure of bias.
> AGAINST THE AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT.  I am an offspring of holocaust
> survivors and my business activities have taken me to Austria
> numerous times in the past two decades.  In modern parlance, BEEN
> THERE, DONE THAT.  And hated it.
>
> Thank you, Dave.
>
> Steve.
>
>
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