At 11:06 AM -0800 12/21/98, Declan McCullagh wrote:
I see Bob is incorrectly assuming that the folks at the Cato Institute knew nothing about cryptoanarchy before David's speech this fall...
(The audience may be a different story, though.)
Interesting that David Friedman kept using language like: "Some of my ideas...." "I have developed this set of ideas..." And yet this constellation of ideas, except for his discourse on digital watermarking of intellectual property, is what I laid out beginning in 1988, and in thousands of essays here on this list. And in other fora. --Tim May We would go to their homes, and we'd kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments.