On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 21:30:31 +0000 (UTC) jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
On Thursday, November 7, 2019, 05:13:57 PM PST, Punk - Stasi 2.0 <punks@tfwno.gf> wrote:
[quoting Chuck Hamill in 'From Crossbows to Cryptography' "Within a few years, it should be economically feasible to similarly encrypt voice communications; soon after that, full-color digitized video images. Technology will not only have made wiretapping obsolete, it will have totally demolished government’s control over information transfer"
This was actually quite perceptive.
As the subject states, it is infinite self-parody. Involuntary self-parody. Did you get this message I posted yesterday? https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2019-November/077494.html
The key words are "economically feasible". He didn't say it would happen as soon or readily as the economics would seem to have allowed,
he states that in a few year wiretapping will be obsolete. And the claim is a highly stupid joke, flatly refuted by reality. NEWSFLASH FOR YOU JIM : We live in a global surveillance state thanks to 'cheap microelectronics'.