Hi. I've been lazily following the crypto-control issue through e$pam list. Somebody posted a question asking how many peoples would eventually be victims of crypto-enhanced crime. Then, TM came to say that this is irrelevant. TM was right in the context of the post, but it led me to ask myself this (vague) question: What is the real issue here, what makes the govt so insistent about wanting to ban crypto? What is such a threat to them that it makes them pass laws that are profoundly against the US constitution? What causes their panic? To this, all I can find of enough magnitude to put them in such state is that they just recently *truly* realized that crypto will, infinitely more than to threaten the security of the state, threaten their very existence by putting them outside of the money loop. To paraphrase somebody, "individuals recognize taxation as damage and routes their e$ around" I think that *this* debate should be injected in the population and the *bogus* "national security" debate should be dismissed as, just that : bogus. *Everybody* not living on govt taxated money gets a sparkle in their eyes when I introduce them to crypto via the e-$ topic. And all of the others gets pale... ;-) For most peoples, privacy in itself is worth something only if if they have some *value* they want to preserve. Most of the time, this value concretizes itself as "money". So if we talk to them in terms *they* understand, we run a much better chance to make them understand why spreading crypto is a tool we believe will greatly enhance human's life quality. Any comments about why we should *not* put most emphasis on the financial aspect of crypto? Ciao jfa -- Jean-Francois Avon, Pierrefonds(Montreal) QC Canada JFA Technologies, R&D physicists & engineers Instrumentation & control, LabView programming. PGP keys: http://w3.citenet.net/users/jf_avon and: http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html PGP ID:C58ADD0D:529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 PGP ID:5B51964D:152ACCBCD4A481B0 254011193237822C