At 9:20 PM +0100 11/9/96, Anonymous wrote:
Peter Hendrickson <ph@netcom.com> wrote:
What are the benefits of being a cryptoanarchist? Maybe you get to double your income. Most people won't see this as worth the trouble.
If you don't have enough to eat, doubling your income is worth the trouble.
Crypto-anarchy benefits the poor more than the rich. The underlings of society are going to love it.
In fact, they basically already practice it. Not with computers, of course, but in terms of not reporting cash income, not reporting tips, engaging in barter work with others, and gambling in various non-sanctioned markets. (Numbers games and sports betting are huge markets. Interestingly, such markets also validate much of what we say about "reputations." After all, when was the last time you heard about a bookie being sued in court for not paying up? And private justice is administered, as welshers are disposed of directly, without a long, expensive trial. Nearly everything in "crypto anarchy" has direct parallels in "underworld and black markets." Some say they are really the same thing. Perhaps.) --Tim May "The government announcement is disastrous," said Jim Bidzos,.."We warned IBM that the National Security Agency would try to twist their technology." [NYT, 1996-10-02] We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."