At 11:29 AM 1/2/96 -0600, Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin] wrote:

Tell that to folks in the contries of used-to-be-Russia. Lots of old Communist leaders getting back into power - some folks are even saying that the old days under the Communists were better than living in a free market economy.

I said "modern" country. Even so, Russia and the rest are much more market dominated than they used to be. Transition will not be easy but I doubt if they'll go back. As for an eternity of slavery being superior to too rambunctious freedom -- we won't let them be that stupid. The "cancer of Anglo-Saxon values" is pretty powerful.

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Where are the pressure points where regulation can be applied?

How about on the backbone itself? Since everyone goes through the htree major backbones, all one would have to do is control access at those points. Of course, that would lead to clandestine use of store-and-forward LEOsats, s&f UUCP sites, etc. UUCP might even make a comeback ;)

That would require outlawry of crypto over the backbone and some way of convincing the backbone to run government approved code. Quite a bit of resistance would ensue. Have the Feds ever successfully mandated that large numbers of people run government code? DCF