At 08:26 PM 9/13/01 -0500, Agent Farr wrote:

Bell's "Assassination Politics" put cypherpunks on some protective intelligence agendas.

Longtime fans would recognize that this was rent-seeking, one gang vs. another: the federal gang's ability to put 1e7 on O.B-L's noggin. vs. distributed anonymous (ie, citizen's AP) "Most Wanted" Monopolists *hate* competition, by definition. .... When they outlaw Bournouille's law, only birds will fly...