The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

[Tim May]

On Monday, August 27, 2001, at 11:20 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote:

> On Monday, August 27, 2001, at 12:56 PM, Tim May wrote:
>> On Monday, August 27, 2001, at 12:40 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote:
>>> "Freedom fighters in communist-controlled regimes."  How much money
>>> do they have?  More importantly, how much are they willing and able to
>>> spend on anonymity/privacy/black-market technologies?  These guys 
>>> aren't
>>> rolling in dough.
>>
>> The IRA and the Real IRA have a lot of money, as the Brits have been
>> complaining about recently. Osama bin Laden is said to control more 
>> than
>> a billion dollars. And so on. I disagree with you assertion that "these
>> guys aren't rolling in dough."
>
> Members of the IRA are not freedom fighters in a communist-controlled
> country.  bin Laden did fall under that definition when he was fighting
> to get the Russians out of Afghanistan but that was a long time ago.
> Now he's opposing American influence in Saudi Arabia.

Your reading comprehension sucks. I gave half a dozen _examples_, one of 
them "freedom fighters in communist-controlled regimes" and you assume 
this is the only kind of freedom fighter being talked about. No point in 
carrying on a conversation with this breathtaking display of literalism.



--Tim May