Many Cypherpunks view the need to take up crypto arms to stem off an Orwellian, hyper-evil and hyper-competent dictatorship. I'm thinking a more likely (and no less threatening) scenario is one like "Brazil" (ie, the movie). Don't forget, the World Trade Center management was on the Intercom trying to tell everyone to "Remain inside the Building...It's safest Inside the Building". Fuck. Here on Wall Street I'm a dead man. -TD

From: "Roy M. Silvernail" Reply-To: roy@rant-central.com To: Tyler Durden CC: "cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net" Subject: RE: Mystification of Identity: You Say Yusuf, I Say Youssouf... Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 19:35:38 -0400

On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 18:55, Tyler Durden wrote:

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Holy shit. So it really boiled down to mere spelling?

So if there's a single "Mohammed Ali" who is a terrorist in the whole world, then no single Mohammed Ali will be able to fly into and out of the US? How many Mohammed Ali's are there in the world? How many Yousef Islam's?

Or Yusef Islam? Or Yousuf Islam? It's not just spelling, its Anglo-English interpretation of the phonetic names. Remember a few years back when the Associated Press made a (not big, but noticable) deal out of changing the sanctioned spelling of Qadaffi's name?

Now we have an entire bureaucracy working on the assumption that "names" are both is-a-person credentials and immutably tranliterable to the Anglo-English alphabet.

The mind just *boggles*! -- Roy M. Silvernail is roy@rant-central.com, and you're not "Progress, like reality, is not optional." - R. A. Hettinga SpamAssassin->procmail->/dev/null->bliss http://www.rant-central.com

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