On the outright laughability of internet "democracy"

R. A. Hettinga rah at shipwright.com
Sun Aug 11 13:18:32 PDT 2002


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At 12:51 PM -0700 on 8/11/02, A.Austrian.Idiot single hops yet
another remailer and wrote:


> I would think you might be interested in going deeper, as "Blind
> signatures for untraceable  payments" is directly applicable to
> both digital settlement and digital voting.

Yes. Of course. And, if you actually read it, or even just thought
about it instead of spewing oppositional bullshit to everything you
disagree with politically, :-), you'd soon realize that you can't
actually control an truly anonymous voting scheme any more than you
can control a truly anonymous bearer asset. Like equity, an anonymous
vote is completely salable.

In short, sir, please to fuck off, until you actually know what
you're talking about.

Cheers,
RAH

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R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah at ibuc.com>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'





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