At 01:44 PM 5/6/96 EDT, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:

On Sun, 28 Apr 1996, jim bell wrote:

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While strong cryptography is powerful, and secure communications liberating, unplugging the phones would about cripple that 'weapon' for a while. Any group rebelling based only on high technology communication is an extremely vulnerable group, both to widespread denial of service, and more specific 'surgical' attacks. (Motorola stock anyone?)

Wouldn't that partially depend on: A. the level of backups - packet radio as a backup for phones, for instance... a reason I've been forwarding the stuff on radio to here. B. the necessity to the government of keeping what else may depend on those phones - the economy - going. -Allen

The attribution above is in error. I didn't type those lines above.Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com