crunch@netcom.com (John Draper) writes:
My proposal is to set up a room with a bunch of donated PC's Macs or whatever, and have a booth set up where people can purchase PGP diskettes
While this sounds like a great idea, I'm not sure you'll find many ravers who eill actually use PGP. How many ravers exchange email, but haven't heard of PGP? It seems like only a couple, based on my talking to people about computers at raves.
[...] handout literature can be made available for anyone attending that describes the "Clipper" proposals, and suggestions on what people can do to resist further government control over private cryptography.
This seems like a more practical tactic. Even just handing out a single or half-page flier about PGP, Clipper, and a couple of other topics would probably get a lot of people to read it. And people at raves are used to others going around handing out interesting things to read. The hard part is coming up with 300 well written words that cover everything that needs to be said, a task I leave in more capable hands. On the other hand, I wouldn't mind lugging my PowerBook 170 down to a rave... If anyone organizes such an event, drop me a line... -- Simon (simonm@mindvox.phantom.com)