JJ Abrams needs killing https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=102129341601550&w=2 Screenwriter of such films as "Armageddon," "Forever Young," and "Regarding Henry," J.J. Abrams made his first foray into television with Imagine Television and Touchstone Television's acclaimed series "Felicity," entering its fourth season. Thats reason enough right there but what really pisses me off is his show Alias keeps perpetuating the old "crypto is too 'techy','geeky'or just too hard for joe(sephine) sixpack to understand."This was old 6 years ago.We can stand a few more details of the built in backdoor on the encryption program,plot point.Would it kill you to try? APster will kill you if you dont.(my 2$) "All people of all nations must be free. I always suspected the Internet could make this a reality; now I truly believe it. We're talking about a micro-intermediated market with *lots* of intermediaries,not just a single intermediary in every transaction. We're talking about Moore's Law and strong cryptography driving profit and loss down to the device level, Transaction cost is everything. You control the lowest transaction cost, and you dictate what happens. If anonymous payments are cheaper, for the seller of a given good or service, and there's reason to believe this, we'll have anonymous payments, sooner rather than later."