-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Forwarded message: - From dcwill@python.ee.unr.edu Tue Jan 3 11:52:23 1995 From: "Dr. D.C. Williams" <dcwill@python.ee.unr.edu> Message-Id: <199501031952.LAA04685@python.ee.unr.edu> Subject: Re: Press attack on anonymity. To: asgaard@sos.sll.se (Mats Bergstrom) Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 11:52:15 -0800 (PST) Cc: dcwill@python.ee.unr.edu (Dr. D.C. Williams, P.E.) In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.91.950103194933.7114A-100000@cor.sos.sll.se> from "Mats Bergstrom" at Jan 3, 95 08:05:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 842 Mats Bergstrom wrote:

Since Joe User doesn't really care if he can connect anonymously or not, at least not yet, they might very well succeed in making some aspects of anonymity 'illegal'. But who cares, if anonymous agents can't be traced?

Because then the last, unstoppable act of the State will be to clamp down on anonymous agents. See "How to Boil Live Frogs". You can't dump them into boiling water because they will jump out. Instead, start at a comfortable temperature and turn up the heat a little bit at a time. Eventually, the frogs become unable to escape and are lulled to their unconscious death. I equate "making some aspects 'illegal'" with increasing the water temperature. To paraphrase and oft-seen .sig from this list: "Seldom is freedom of any kind lost all at once." =D.C. Williams <dcwill@ee.unr.edu> - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBLwm6/ioZzwIn1bdtAQGuRwGAobH2lCXDIHUCitG1mcI0RasjMOWjovT2 xUpa1Xta/mphm/s+2H21f7kuFvY6smcn =wclb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----