geographically removed?

[James A. Donald]

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On 27 Nov 2004 at 6:43, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
> Internal resistance mediated by cypherpunkly tech can always
> be defeated by cranking up the police state a notch.

You assume the police state is competent, technically skilled,
determined, disciplined, and united.  Observed police states
are incompetent, indecisive, and quarrelsome.

> This is eg why e-cash systems have anonymity problems.

The problem is that any genuinely irrevocable payment system
gets swarmed by conmen and fraudsters.   We have a long way to
go before police states are the problem.

 

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