-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Phil Karn:

..... Indeed, many of us find cryptography so appealing precisely because of its purely defensive nature.

Phil, if you think cryptography as a purely defensive thing, you are deeply mistaken. Cryptography implies anonymous mail, which in turn implies the ability to do a lot of harm, through calomny, for example. Dont be mistaken: cryptography can be an *offensive* weapon.

Worst of all are the complete loonies (some apparently on this list) who assert that guns are an essential protection against a tyrannical US Federal Government.

I think there's a place called talk.politics.guns somewhere. There's more than _some_ people on this list that believe in self-defense through guns. - -zap -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCUAgUBLUnZiCk+9PttYUp1AQFj9wP4jF8u77dMj5COxqK5KC+Qp9rCmILRfKXw n52a+TabbNHsntAiBZ0YW3TCuZ8doVPtegmm2M/uChlKdpotNiZLPgi6Kf6wWzFw XJyQAirkXOxRshVwucigEa0DtmIBhMfHYVStvQtUM9lU+tO8KvZo8/KZEb0pXaTW UsfKe4WHbw== =+lKm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To find out more about the anon service, send mail to help@anon.penet.fi. Due to the double-blind, any mail replies to this message will be anonymized, and an anonymous id will be allocated automatically. You have been warned. Please report any problems, inappropriate use etc. to admin@anon.penet.fi.