C'punks, On Sun, 29 May 1994, Robert Hettinga wrote:
. . . [snip] and Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com> replied,
[much really spiffy stuff about shooting the shooter(or not) "elided" as they say around here...]
uh, is this *really* cryptography?
[sorry...]
No need to apologize, Robert. We all make mistakes. Well, it is about privacy (all those microphones wouldn't have to just listen for gunshots) and about empowering the police state. As I see it, Cypherpunks aren't primarily interested in crypto as an end, but rather as a means to an end. I'll leave the determination of what end(s) we have in mind. Probably, though, they would strongly overlap with concern about a police state with ubiquitous microphones, and (doG forbid) automated machine guns. Think about it. S a n d y