[free-sklyarov] An Alternative Line of Argumentation

Dave Sherohman esper at sherohman.org
Sun Jul 22 10:45:51 PDT 2001


On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:18:23PM -0400, Cousin Willie wrote:
>    How does it help the cause to have a bunch of "advocates" charge out half-cocked saying "you're too dumb to understand what's going on here, but let me provide this simple analogy", and then proceeding to mumble something about cereal boxes and secret decoders, or books in glass boxes, or Firestone tires?  It seems that you're walking a fine line, risking that the public draws some undesirable conclusions:

You're right.  Coming up with a way to explain the case to random
passers-by in 30 seconds or less which neither relies upon previous
knowledge nor comes off as condescending is, to say the least, difficult,
especially when it deals with something as esoteric as crypto.  If you
think you can do a better job of it, please do.  A good capsule summary
of the situation would do us all a lot of good.

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