THE FOLLOWING IS FOR INFORMATIONAL VALUE ONLY & IS DOES NOT ADVOCATE THE BREAKING OF ANY LAWS. Dear Cypherpunks, Well, I think enough damage control has been done with my original Privacy Digest post. Now to pick through the ashes & see if I can come up with anything of value. The ideas & services presented in the Privacy Digest advertisement e are still very good. I think that bright segments of the upper classes commonly do have access to these services. The trick would be to bring these services to the class masses. I think that it would have been hard to do this in the times before the great amount of electronic privacy software & infrastructure that have been built up. Now that we have the tech. investment, I think that International financial transactions could be privately done for the people. What we need mostly are lawyers & financial experts that are willing to deal with the middle classes & who are aware of & want to deal with Cypherpunk technology. That would probably mean two or more people. One would be the international law/money expert. The other would be the communications expert. Do we have a shortage of lawyers who want to live & work in tax haven vacation spots & get rich? If our Cypherpunk lawyers are afraid of wrecking their reputations with States, then maybe they could get "little" lawyers to do the front work for them. We seem to be up to our asses here in the U.S. with lawyers & I hear they are starting to have a hard time making careers. However, there is a huge market for lawyers financial experts that is unoccupied in the masses money privacy area. As to the Cypherpunk tech.s, I think that for a good salary, they could be convinced to go to a vacation spot & do what they really want to do anyway. They would, of course, own a portion of the Corporation so that a successful venture would mean a secure future. It really needs one model experiment to open it up. After that, other groups could model themselves on the first & we would wind up with a giant private economy. - a true free market! I would suggest that the team just start out with a couple of services. I would suggest check & money order cashing & funds trans- mitting service & possibly an e$ clearinghouse. Once these activities were successful, then other services could be added on. When this business starts making good money, then they could afford to pay Cypherpunk programmers for their work. They could also afford to pay remailers for stable services. This would, of course, snowball. More money means better privacy software & better privacy software means a safer & more committed private money business & thus more money for more & better privacy software & privacy infrastructure. So far, Cypherpunks & associates have been like "all dressed up & no place to go". That is, we have a lot of good software & systems & hardly anyone making good use of it. An offshore, money privacy business for the general public that wanted Cypherpunk tech. would have use for most of it & a demand for more of it. It is my view, that what is most needed now, is a model offshore private money services company which uses Cypherpunk tech. & actually makes money. With that as a nucleus, the TRULY private economy would skyrocket & the Cypherpunk dream would be realized. Yours Truly, Gary Jeffers