>When you were asked where were all the supposed wealthy freedom
   fighters
   >in communist controlled regimes, you came back with Osama bin Laden.

   Tim's point, which many seem to have missed, is that by design a tool
   that enforces the privacy, anonymity, and pseudonymity of a women
   striving for equal rights in Afghanistan can also be used by the
   Taliban in their quest to track down and kill Afghans who converted to
   Christianity and are now preaching the Word.  Tools are tools -- the
   uses are what we make of them.  If you don't want to create tools that
   can be used for evil, then you must forgo the making of tools.

   Crypto anarchy is coming -- we had best prepare for it, lest it
   overwhelm us.  In the end, I believe that it will result in more
   freedom for more people, by restraining those in government from doing
   any silly thing they like to us.  Although I see many people complain
   about the excesses of corporations, in about every case I can think of
   the harm they did was enabled by the collusion of government
   officials.  If you can restrain the actions of government (by crypto
   anarchy, voting "the rascals out of office", or whatever), you will
   generally improve the amount of freedom people have to live their
   lives.

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   Mark Leighton Fisher            fisherm@tce.com
   Thomson multimedia, Inc.        Indianapolis IN
   "Display some adaptability." -- Doug Shaftoe, _Cryptonomicon_