[LINK] Why Irkut ?

[felipe rodriquez]

Irene,

> To anyone who was considering inviting me, please just don't.
>
> Anyone who's already sent me an invitation, and who happens to be 
> subscribed
> to this list (lurking or otherwise), can regard this as my response.

I'm sorry you are not joining. You'll miss Barlow, Dyson, O'Reilly and 
others we both know.

I find Irkut to be similar to BBS systems I used to use in the 80's and 
90's, all rights would be limited to the sysop, who could do whatever 
he wanted. I also found a large number of hacker friends from the 80's 
who I first met on such bulletin boards. And one of my best schoolmates 
I lost contact with for many years, and an old friend who also happens 
to have MS. I would never have stuck there if there where not a large 
community of my international friends online.

There are also some issues with the potential of Irkut being used for 
intelligence gathering. But I already anticipate that all my Email, 
faxes and phonecalls are in the public domain as far as spooks are 
concerned. I use tunnels and PGP and all that, but I still feel that it 
could potentially be cracked and archived.


Rgds

	felipe