On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 6:53 AM, R|diger Koch <rudiger.koch@gmail.com> wrote:

I hope and believe that we still have a long way to go down the Road to Serfdom until this becomes a real possibility. There is still a chance that the current process stops. The USA had a close brush with totalitarianism (Mc Carthy) in the 1950s and also managed to come around.

We're creeping closer to it again, I'm afraid - anarchists are the new reds, warrants are secret, and doors are being kicked in.

If we get close, we'll stop distributing updates, find another way to accomplish the same goals and ask everyone to destroy their copies.

This is, incidentally, why I keep talking about running everything over Tor and using distributed services. If one instance of a service has to disappear (say it gets /usr/bin/shred'd for security) other instances on the network wll still exist and operate normally. -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "I am everywhere." -- -- Zero State mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/DoctrineZero ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE