To coin a new phrase, and a play on words on the heresy known as "liberation theology", I was thinking about what cypherpunks and such is about and it comes down to "Liberation Technology". Encryption and authentication technology lets me do things regardless of what government wants. I can communicate and not with who I want to. But I also thought about some of the original Liberation Technology, starting with the crossbow (which was banned because "even women could use them"). Guns are liberation technology and why restrictions on the ownership or usage parallel crypto and other internet restrictions - When I can exercise a right by using technology, restricting that technology restricts that right. --- reply to tzeruch - at - ceddec - dot - com ---