29 Nov
2004
29 Nov
'04
5:51 a.m.
-- On 27 Nov 2004 at 6:43, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Internal resistance mediated by cypherpunkly tech can always be defeated by cranking up the police state a notch.
You assume the police state is competent, technically skilled, determined, disciplined, and united. Observed police states are incompetent, indecisive, and quarrelsome.
This is eg why e-cash systems have anonymity problems.
The problem is that any genuinely irrevocable payment system gets swarmed by conmen and fraudsters. We have a long way to go before police states are the problem. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG j/Q7ovPCBpocpAweY6EuWipd1SYuu09GuF0FDGs4 4F1phVigtAvUzPhC0QjPDP/3SKkY4KUtZc5hRUL9a