John Young: | A Foxhole-atheist swears Pat Robertson said last night that his | new book warns of a "digital cash society" and massive | theft by cyber-criminals. Did any believer hear this, or | know if this is what he prognosticates for e-cash bedevilment? ----- BEGIN EXCERPT ----- The 700 Club, March 8, 1995, 10:00 -- 11:30 AM [ ... ] PAT ROBERTSON: OK. Well, ladies and gentlemen, something a little bit more serious. You know, the Bible talks about a day when people won't be able to buy or sell except having a mark; a mark of what is called the beast. It's one of those things in Relevation that keeps coming up. Well, as technology increases, we see a little bit -- a little bit more. Now we've got digital cash that may on the way to your wallet, a card you can use for any kind of purchase, from health care to road tolls to pay-per-view TV. But are there hidden security dangers in this computerized wonder card? We've got a special report on this program. You don't want to miss it. [ ... ] ROBERTSON: Now that man [David Chaum!] is Jewish. I don't know whether he's speaking out of Relevations or not, but that is the scenario set forth ... in Relevation, that the -- the -- the cards are too -- too valuable to be lost, which means that -- that there has to be some other identification. And we just were speaking, prior to the program, about the possibility of, indeed, a tattoo that would carry -- just tiny little dots would carry -- all the information that is needed could be put on somebody's hand or wherever. It's -- it's that close, really. ... We've got a few years to go, but I -- I -- I -- I'm just -- and -- and the -- the -- the justification for all this is, `Well, we can't have people dealing drugs.' So let's -- in order to cut the drug dealers, let's take away the freedom and privacy of every other human being on the face of the earth, and that is a frightening prospect. [ ... ] ----- END EXCERPT ---- There's more, like an interview with David Chaum and Dave Banisar [EPIC], but I've got raw calluses on my hands, so I'm not doing any more typing tonight. ;-) PS to JYA: Communique top secret postal address / telephone facsimile machine access codes for possible transmittance of relevant sections for scanning and automatic distribution to the CP list via usual methods? Remember to use HyperMIME backchannel DC-net OTP public key MOST SECRET secret-shared subliminal-signature encoding methods to prevent intellectual property gestapo from homing in on location of Rebel base, no? ;-) -- Michael Handler | Cypherpunks: Civil Liberty through Complex Mathematics handler@sub-rosa.com | grendel@netaxs.com | ISO: Midrange good quality violincello, new or used, Philadelphia, PA | full size, with bow and case, in PA/NY/NJ/DE/MD.