[Noisebridge-discuss] deep crack announcement .. tax issue/

[Jacob Appelbaum]

Christoph Maier wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 15:15 -0700, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
>> Christoph Maier wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 13:51 -0700, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
>>>> The single person who is a foreigner in
>>>> the space thinks that this response should be enough to satisfy their
>>>> concern. 
>>> How do you classify "foreigner in the space"?
>>>
>>> I'm showing up there on occasion, and have met several other foreigners
>>> there, too.
>>>
>> I was speaking of vocal members in this thread. Do you have a concern
>> with this machine being in the space? Do you feel that it would impair
>> your ability to come to the space more than my Linux laptop with a DVD
>> drive playing?
>>
>> Best,
>> Jake
> 
> Well, why be vocal if others already express my concerns, and I'm not a
> member (yet)?

To let people know how you feel if you feel strongly about the subject?

> 
> I'm mildly concerned to give Authorities ANY excuse to scrutinize
> noisebridge, 
> and I'd be REALLY pissed to have a cool toy sitting around and have
> ANYONE tell me that I'm allowed to hack it. NOT excellent.
> 

Well, I'm certainly not trying to attract attention but I admit, I'm
probably the worst person to say that. I have attracted a lot of
attention to Noisebridge. But I'd like to think that this has been
mostly positive!

If you're not able to touch Deep Crack _and you care_, I hope you'll
emulate it in software! Give ITAR-like regulations the finger with some
style! :-)

Best,
Jake

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 155 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://lists.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/attachments/20091009/85129975/attachment-0003.sig>