At 1:34 AM 1/2/96, Lucky Green wrote:

Will C2 carry certain newsgroups/info after doing so has become a felony? Who wants to be an 'illegal data' kingpin and face execution? (Kingpins are 'data trafficers' that carry more than 1.5 Megs of 'controlled information'.)

I've also heard that some of these Data Kingpins (shudder!) are making use of Criminal Money-Laundering Banks (tm), including a bank called "The Mark Twain Bank"! (I hear that MTB has been offered a deal they cannot refuse.) These criminal "offshore" banks are of course illegal for ordinary citizen-units (aka proles) to use, being the sole province of Certain Government Agencies. Authorized Offshore Criminal Banks, like the Castle Bank, the Nugan-Hand Bank, and the Bank of Commerce and Credit International (BCCI) are of course needed by legitimate government as a way to fund Contra resupply efforts from the Southeast Asian drug trade. (Seriously, really seriously, our list is generally not a place to obsess on conspiracies. But anyone who has any doubts about what is going on, and how some parts of government have become too large/too corrupt, should spend at least a day or so looking into these things. You should all know the search keywords by now (BCCI, Mena, Castle Bank, Air America, Khun Sa, Banco Lavoro del Nazionale, Gehlen, etc.). Anyone who looks into the tangled web of such dealings will never, ever think the government is trying to ban encryption so it can protect us from child pornographers.) --Tim May We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 - 1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."