David wrote:
Declan's comment on operating a physical remailer for suitably valuable cargo, plus some of Tim's recent comments about integration, made me think of the question in the subject line. So far I see at least three possible answers.
1) Make lots of money.
2) Spread awareness (that "funny feeling in the stomach" recently discussed) and save our fellow man. Make the world safe for privacy.
3) Ensure that cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies have uses besides "Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse," so that they aren't banned.
anything else?
Yes, a corollary to 2) is that by saving our fellow man, we are saving ourselves as well. The elitist idea that it doesn't make any difference what happens to the little people is wrong-headed. Because the world is set up to make cars affordable for the little people, you and I can have personal automotive transportation at a fraction of the cost if we were to try and assemble them up in Galt's Gulch. If crypto gets wide-spread use by the little people, our use will be lost in the noise. S a n d y