marc suggests:

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I *am* a little worried about publicizing the whole thing; perhaps it's okay to make it a showpiece but the real stuff needs to be done in a much more private way.

Consider the phage model (which I & my roommate efrem lipkin have been considering for a longish while, since Community Memory) : The bacteriophage virus replicates itself by injecting its own information into an existing system. The more copies of the phage, the worse for the bacteria etc etc. SO: in private, the planning, the designing, the coding... for public distribution as widely as possible. If the technology is intrinsically transformative, and if the process of distribution is engaging, even exciting, the revolution is next tuesday. hughes is hoping that remailers will pop up everywhere, even before the encryption upgrades arrive... heh. And the more designers and coders we rope in, via publicizing, to produce immediate lively replicating phages, the better. Not so? If not so, I'll shut up forthwith. StJude PS: also it mindfucks the idea of conspiracy. hee hee.