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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