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McCandlish Retiring

Posted by michael on from the know-exactly-how-he-feels dept.

scubacuda writes "According to Wired, Stanton McCandlish, the Internet's "first full-time activist" (and previous employee of Electronic Frontier Foundation), is retiring. McCandlish is famous for using the comp.org.eff.talk newsgroup and EFFector mailing list to spread the word about the threat of the notorious Clipper Chip (Clipper Chip glossary here) and started the wildly popular "blue ribbon" free-speech campaign."

11 comments

  1. uhhh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    from the know-exactly-how-he-feels dept.

    Please tell me this was meant as a joke, and that Michael Sims does not think he is a champion of privacy or freedom. Michael has done more to chill freedom than anybody else related to the Internet!

  2. McCandlish is replaced by McLightBulbish. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The technological advances reach even the EFF someday.

  3. Have you actually been to the censorware.org by hackwrench · · Score: 1

    website... You say that with such certainty... Wait a minute... Your Seth Finkelstein, aren't you?

    1. Re:Have you actually been to the censorware.org by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, I'm not Seth F, just somebody who hates the shit that michael dumps all over Slashdot (wildly innacurate/unsubstantiated stories, generally lame stuff). The fact that he's a hypocritical douchebag just adds to it. Also, I don't see anything on censorware.org currently that makes me think otherwise of mike. I really wish he would stop posting his drivel. I would block him (as I have chrisd) but he posts like 40% of the stuff here, so if I banned him it would just be timothy's stuff, and while timothy at least has a brain, that's not really enough content for me!

  4. You should find a better link then to substantiate by hackwrench · · Score: 1

    your claims then, considering the bad blood between them.

  5. win, win by topham · · Score: 1

    And now, instead of having a cell phone your neighbor would have a hard time listing in on, EVERYBODY can listen in on it as much as they want.

    By the way, the government won that round.

  6. The State of The Net by gartogg · · Score: 3

    What this tells me is that the person who is one of the most responsible for trying to protect digital privacy/freedom has decided that the fight just isn't going to win. How sad a day this is!

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    I'm a concientious .sig objector.
  7. Thanks by Will+Sargent · · Score: 1

    Stanton did good work, and he deserves the rest.

    He also deserves a lot more than three comments, but that's fame for you...