Boastfully ignorant reporters [Was: Zergo can do secure TTPs]

John Young jya at pipeline.com
Tue, 14 Jul 1998 13:01:42 -0400


Well, yes, indeed, it's a bind for those of us who never seem
to get it right about crypto, gaga to help, and must learn to
bear the darts heaved our way when we cannot get it just so
as the superwizards do amongst themselves.

Still, the wizards out of their ether aren't any better, god bless
their valiant attempts to Postscript equations and algorithms
and sheets upon sheets of alphnumerics into everyday
plaintext fools like me can grasp in ASCII text, or best, buy as
Microsoft sweets.

Short of all knowing all there is know we're left to protocol managers, 
like MS marketeers, those who diplomatically listen and translate as 
best they can the frustrated expletives best deleted between designers
and consumers and, not least, traffic police surrounded by drivers
from hell screaming "give way, YF idiots."

Perhaps that's why Ross was so subdued: envisioning a $50 million 
sweet or the club from hell.