Note that my main point was sort-of vague. Let me re-iterate it: crypto-activism should go along with the other activism for democratizing countries like China, Iraq, Burma, etc. Most of the activists involved with those issues know about the culture (and many are already PGP-aware)... so for specific situations some of the ideas presents may not be appropriate for others. It might be ok to direct-mail someone in one country, but dangerous for someone in another. Also don't take for granted the relative access of privacy one has in the US or Europe compared to some regime where you can only net surf with a policement watching over your shoulder at the police station's internet kiosks (hypothetical...). Using an anonymous remailer or web anonymizer may be reason enough to get somebody in another country in trouble. The thought of blindly being a k00l krypt0 activist and getting some poor guy in another country thrown in jail doesn't do much to help democratize that country. Spam and unsolicited mail aren't the way to go. Better, more subtle ideas, might be to say 'check out this page' ot 'i've got source code for that on my page at...', which has techie or even entertainment info but also has political info (that already happens quite unintentionally). I wonder what web users in places like Singapore thought when they kept running across blacked-out anti-CDA pages... If one is familiar with the culture, one can even be really subtle and seem to be talking about an unreleated story or even techie or sports but actually be discussing the political situation in that country (look at many Soviet films, some Chinese films, Spanish films under Franco's regime, Cuban films, etc.) On 12 Jul 96 at 18:30, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote: [..]

If these countries didn't value their technical people and what they can do, they wouldn't be allowing them on the Internet (even in a restricted way) in the first place. The above would only be a likely scenario if the [..] Don't underestimate people's stupidity. The party loyalists or bootlickers may get away with more naughtiness on the 'net, but those borderline techies who are about due for another month at a re-education camp or loyalty counseling may get screwed. If such countries really valued their techies, then why do they allow them to emmigrate to Western countries?

How, precisely, is one going to filter out graphics from web sites in Chinese? Ascii text and ideographs don't exactly get along. One interesting [..] By filtering out all photographs, which from what I heard the Chinese were contemplating. Whether is it truly feasible is another matter, of course. But since when has infeasability prevented anyone from

[..] trying it? Rob --- No-frills sig. Befriend my mail filter by sending a message with the subject "send help" Key-ID: 5D3F2E99 1996/04/22 wlkngowl@unix.asb.com (root@magneto) AB1F4831 1993/05/10 Deranged Mutant <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com> Send a message with the subject "send pgp-key" for a copy of my key.