I was just looking through a couple of the earliest messages on the 1996 CP archive file. This was one email: From cypherpunks@MHonArc.venona Wed Dec 17 23:17:14 2003 From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 09:09:30 +0800 To: Brad Dolan Subject: Re: CSPAN Currency Creation Hearings Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain At 19:04 1/1/96, Brad Dolan wrote: >I caught part of it. > >The general theme was,~"we're going to establish a `partnership' with >digicash / crypto firms to ensure that our `legitimate law-enforcement >needs' are designed into the products."~ I sincerely doubt that there will be any 'partnerships' between DigiCash and law enforcement. -- Lucky Green PGP encrypted mail preferred. --------------- quote from email ------------- On seeing this, it immediately occurred to me, suppose we had asked those people , "Okay, Sir, what ILLEGITIMATE law-enforcement needs" would you want us to incl ude as well?" Okay, I'm just in a funny mood tonight. Jim Bell