why market to Joe Sixpack?

Sandy Sandfort sandfort at mindspring.com
Wed Nov 21 21:00:48 PST 2001


David wrote:

> Declan's comment on operating a physical
> remailer for suitably valuable cargo,
> plus some of Tim's recent comments about
> integration, made me think of the
> question in the subject line. So far
>I see at least three possible answers.
>
> 1) Make lots of money.
>
> 2) Spread awareness (that "funny feeling in the stomach" recently
> discussed) and save our fellow man. Make the world safe for privacy.
>
> 3) Ensure that cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies have uses
> besides "Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse," so that they aren't banned.
>
> anything else?

Yes, a corollary to 2) is that by saving our fellow man, we are saving
ourselves as well.  The elitist idea that it doesn't make any difference
what happens to the little people is wrong-headed.  Because the world is set
up to make cars affordable for the little people, you and I can have
personal automotive transportation at a fraction of the cost if we were to
try and assemble them up in Galt's Gulch.  If crypto gets wide-spread use by
the little people, our use will be lost in the noise.


 S a n d y





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