At 11:50 AM 10/4/2001 -0700, you wrote:
I just saw Ian Goldberg's latest message on this. Here's most of it:
Re:Ian Goldberg, Bruce Schneier & Whitfield Di (Score:1) by Ian Goldberg on Thursday October 04, @01:38PM (#2388977) (User #526438 Info | http://slashdot.org/) Believe me, no one is more disappointed about this than I am, but right now there simply isn't enough market buy-in on the premium services to justify the network's operating costs. :-(
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Our research team is continuing work in the area of privacy enhanced network protocols, and we are open to any suggestions the research community offers on how we can leverage the work that went into the Freedom Network design and operation to advance this area of computer science. If you have suggestions or interest in this, please contact us at corporate@zeroknowledge.com [mailto].
Seems like the Ghost of Ecash Past claims another victim. I'm sure Bob Hettinga will soon latch on to this one as another reason why a good venture failed. I wonder if Hush is next. As discussed on this list recently there is a keen need for anonymizing (a'la Crowds) to be added to a popular P2P service. Has the Crowds source been published/leaked? steve