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 :-)
