Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)

[Jim Choate]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, David Honig wrote:

> At 08:59 PM 4/16/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
> >
> >On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, David Honig wrote:
> >
> >> At 02:06 PM 4/15/01 -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote:
> >> >regard to contract enforcement.  There has to be a hook where someone 
> >> >who does a ripoff can be punished, or else there is no deal.
> >> 
> >> In infospace, there is only reputation, not meat and bones, that
> >> can be damaged.
> >
> >Tell that to the insulin pump or the aircraft auto-pilot...
> >
> >What a naive view of 'bits'.
> >
> 
> We're not talking about life-critical apps.

And why not, they certainly aren't excluded by your earlier commentary
above.

Is your contention that crypto-anarchy only works in non-life-critical
apps? Somehow I doubt that.

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