[86825] in Cypherpunks
RE: sooner or later
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fisher Mark)
Fri Sep 19 14:08:01 1997
From: Fisher Mark <FisherM@exch1.indy.tce.com>
To: Cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>, "'Wei Dai'" <weidai@eskimo.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 12:18:28 -0500
Reply-To: Fisher Mark <FisherM@exch1.indy.tce.com>
>3. A ban will eventually be lifted, because of the impracticality of
GAK,
>abuses, wide-spread security problems caused by added complexity or
>hackers stealing the master keys, ineffectiveness, sympathetic courts
etc.
>The sooner it comes into effect, the sooner it goes away.
But eventually could be 2047 (or 2097)... I'm 40 now. I'd like to live
to see the day. This situation starts to unpleasantly remind me of
Heinlein's "If This Goes On...".
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Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics
fisherm@indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN
"Their walls are built of cannon balls, their motto is 'Don't Tread on
Me'"
