At 7:22 AM -0700 5/31/06, Steve Schear wrote:
This may not be as much a blow to free speech as an opportunity to promote the civic virtue of psuedo-anonymous speech. Cypherpunks should focus on how whistle-blowers can use available technology to authenticate themselves to reporters and secretly correspond to help the press investigate and corroborate the story without having to come forward and expose themselves to presecution.
Amen. Contrary to the delusions of statists, politics is *not* physics by other means. You can't legislate reality away. Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery." -- Dan Geer