In reply to Lynelle Paulick.

I’d love to be compared to Edward Murrow more often. Or any of lots of other folks. Thanks! {8’>

I sure enjoy your simple, but substantive, writing, David! I am pretty sick at the moment, so I skipped most of the text, but I saw the formatting (very good); possibly, just possibly, the main point of your rant (includes some annoyance perhaps?); and once again, the simplicity and humility with which you deliver it.

The stuff you are writing about makes me nauseous. I ain’t a techie, don’t wanna be a techie, and don’t really want to hear about it. In your case, I might have listened though if not for the personal circumstances today. (And yesterday and the day before.)

So thanks so much, and good work and good “luck” on your writing efforts, books and such.

p.s. Remember Edward Murrow the reporter of yesteryear — he is famous for ending every single broadcast with his deadpan and professional “good night; and good luck.” I love that.

Hey–for the interested, Paul Rosenberg made some good points about free services and who their customers are.

A word of warning, though: the Cryptohippie service with which he is associated, although it’s a very cool-sounding VPN service, suffers from the same reliability problem as any other VPN. You don’t know whether they’ve been compromised, or by whom, or to what extent. There are several potential areas of vulnerability, and there are no provisions for anonymous payment.

Rosenberg himself strikes me as an honest guy (FWIW), but he may not know those answers himself. In fact, he probably can’t.

I’m not sure I totally buy his argument against free services, or his arguments against using Tor either (from a different post); his bias seems clear.

Still. The guy’s worth reading, and on several topics. What else do you want from him anyway? {8’>