At 1:34 PM -0800 2/9/98, Adam Back wrote:
I am not sure I want to see my computer narcing out over RF frequencies what software is installed -- once enabled for corporates
Why not monkeywrench the narcware to narc out falsely? Imagine 100 copies of a program all screaming "Bill Gates"! (ObCrypto: One can imagine methods to broadcast a new signifier each time a program is started...some kind of zero knowledge approach. But this gets difficult when the broadcast program is under the control of those trying to defeat the system. A well known problem. E.g., if N copies are all identical, and the ZKIPS approach is generated in software, the N copies will overlap signals. And so on. I expect the Anderson-Kuhn approach broadcasts a single identifier, though I have not yet had time to look at their paper, so I may be wrong here.) Narcware will face a lot of customer resistance. --Tim May Just Say No to "Big Brother Inside" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^3,021,377 | black markets, collapse of governments.