The Crypto Winter

[Declan McCullagh]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 09:04:00PM -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, alphabeta121 wrote:
> 
> > what does C-A-C-L stand for?
> 
> Crypto-Anarcho-Capitalist-Libertarian
> 
> It's the recognition that these approaches to social engineering are
> united by a shared interest in maximum profit and a failure to take human
> psychology as a boundary condition.

Or, put another way, it's a crankish label applied by someone with
serious comprehension problems. Everyone else can safely ignore it.

-Declan