why market to Joe Sixpack?

[Petro]

On Wednesday, November 21, 2001, at 08:51 PM, dmolnar 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.

	Always a good reason if you can do it.

> 2) Spread awareness (that "funny feeling in the stomach" recently
> discussed) and save our fellow man. Make the world safe for privacy.

	Maybe we should all take to wearing a safety pin on our shirts, and 
when people ask about it say "It's not a safety pin, it's a Crypto 
Awareness Ribbon", and when "they" say "but there's no ribbon there", 
say "Yes, there is, it's just that you can't see it...".

	(For the more literal minded among you, this is a joke).

> 3) Ensure that cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies have uses
> besides "Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse," so that they aren't banned.
>
> anything else?

	4) Economy of scale. Software designed and written for 100000000 
people is usually much cheaper than software designed and written for 10.

	5) Cover traffic. If every stinking thing on the wire was encrypted 
(at least once), then an encrypted transmission garners no additional 
scrutiny. If only 1 out of 1 million transmissions are encrypted, then 
The Department Of They has a greater sususpion that you're saying 
something they want to hear.

--
People who are willing to rely on the government to keep them safe are
pretty much standing on Darwin's mat, pounding on the door, screaming,
"Take me, take me!"--Cael in A.S.R. --