At 10:05 PM -0700 9/11/97, James S. Tyre wrote:
So, the last rhetorical question -- how do you convince someone who's never used a browser (the vast majority of the voting populace, I'd think) why crypto is important?
This is back to where we were four and a half years ago, when Clipper was dropped on us. "How do we educate the users?" Trust me, it's a hopeless task. We don't have the advertising budgets, the staff for education, etc. And it ain't our responsibility to "save" the sheeple. What we _can_ do is prepare for a long guerilla war with the bastards. 80% of the population will willingly trade away their rights ("what have I got to hide?") for more perceived security. Ben Franklin saw this 230 years ago. It's war. Too late for a public relations campaign so that some future Congress will slightly relax their laws. And in a war, gotta break some eggs. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- 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: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."