-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Crim Tideson writes:
That being said let it be known that I consider the following as a "Cypherpunk victory."
1. Complete freedom of technology, particularly encryption technology, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ regulated only by market forces. This implies the lack of import/export restrictions, and a complete absence of projects designed to limit ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ technology, or to standardize it for nefarious ends like Clipper. ^^^^^^^^^^
I think you overgeneralize. No limits on toxic waste incinerators, low-mileage automobiles, unsafe medical devices, genetically tampered food, or nuclear reactors? "Market forces" in such cases positively encourage dangerous technology (e.g. incinerators are superficially cheap) or are marked by their inability to distinguish the good from the crap (e.g. medical devices).
Who decides what's good and what's crap? Let me see if I understand. Are you advocating that personal choice in medical devices, food, etc., be supplanted by government dictate? Do you understand that in many cases, a person is interested in strong cryptography just so that she can make her own choices in such matters, free of interference by a do-gooder who thinks he knows better than she? That she sees crypto as a way to defend against him (e.g. by buying ``unsafe medical devices'' through BlackNet)? ``Market forces'' are just the sum of personal choices. John E. Kreznar | Relations among people to be by jkreznar@ininx.com | mutual consent, or not at all. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLpIRDMDhz44ugybJAQFVXwP/b55FYnEtdtviLZMeWovqd4L5nB4SVkpK 4st4aP2wvIp2AR8Zzn5X8SEufOunq96qy0QfMPEBwHqMD0eAs1rZbItjX0lFZ2VB 3uSJ+Ah45qb5IEnwQbYq36a3pgROfr2dvDyM/8pRnyCOeT1MY6xVZO9+6TZf9AA6 hEtDK9CH+5c= =Ol27 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----