geographically removed?

Major Variola (ret) mv at cdc.gov
Tue Nov 30 18:34:52 PST 2004


At 06:44 PM 11/28/04 -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
>    --
>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.

Call me pessimistic, but you seem optimistic to me.

At least we're moderately back on topic :-)





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