Eugene Leitl forwarded:

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 2 Dec 2001 23:23:55 -0000 From: Bruce Sterling <bruces@well.com> To: Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de Subject: Viridian Note 00283: Geeks and Spooks

Key concepts: cryptography, information warfare, imaginary products, American national security

[...big article snipped...] Yee-hah! The most poly-on-topic post that has a appeared in cypherpunks for a while. Read it early and often. Except for the nasty bit about the British near the bottom of course. We are friendly people really. We couldn't help getting that empire you know. All you guys just sat around not looking after your countries at all properly and without anywhere near enough artillery or steam engines, what did you expect? Trade or something? If it hadn't have been us it would have been the Germans, or the French, or the Spanish, and we're *much* nicer than them. Ken Brown