[ale] Better do my talk before it is illegal

[Derek Atkins]

"Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at WittsEnd.com> writes:

> On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 17:36 -0500, Charles Shapiro wrote:
>> Dang, I missed that fight.  I still have my computer case autographed
>> by Phil Zimmermann though.  A friend of mine actually had the "This is
>> a Munition", but wouldn't part with it for love nor money.
>
> Seriously...  Both of my sons and I have the "RSA munitions tee shirt",
> a black tee shirt with the RSA algorithm printed on it (amusingly
> printed in Great Briton and IMPORTED).  I'll bring mine next month.
> One

Is this the "RSA-in-4-lines-of-PERL" T-shirt?

> time, I asked a school councilor at their high school if they could wear
> it, because of the "zero tolerance" weapons policy there, and the person
> mentally locked up and could NOT get their head around the very concept
> and ended up (after several sputtering staggering moments of confusion)
> saying "I have no idea".  Schools and school personnel have no sense of
> humor or irony and do not like their policies being made the horses' ass
> of jokes.
>
> I've met Phil several times in the past.  He visited ISS several times
> as well as a Networld Interop conference or two.  We chat when we have a
> chance though it's been several years at this point.

Yes, Phil is definitely an interesting guy.  I, too, haven't seen him in
a bit (I think it's been a year or two).  I'm just glad that he no longer
calls me at 2am asking me questions*.  :-/

> Regards,
> Mike

-derek

* when I was back in school and acting as the release engineer for MIT
  PGP (PGP-2.6.x) he would often call at 2am asking about upcoming
  releases or about making changes.

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
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