Traceable Infrastructure is as vulnerable as traceable messages.

[Jim Choate]

On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 jamesd at echeque.com wrote:

> As governments become more lawless, and laws become mere desires of the 
> powerful, rather than any fixed set of rules, the state is increasing
> less one powerful entity, rather it becomes numerous entities each with
> their own conflicting desires.
> 
> The danger is not that the US will turn into the Russia of the 1950s, but 
> merely that it will turn into the Russia of the 1990s, a far less
> threatening prospect.

Yowzer, we agree...

The only significant long-term factor keeping this from happening even
faster is the Chinese. It represents a consistent and 'universal' threat
that motivates these splinter groups to unite in 'commen defence'.


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