[93122] in Cypherpunks
Re: (eternity) autonomous agents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ross Anderson)
Tue Jan 13 10:47:30 1998
To: eternity@internexus.net, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 15:16:45 +0000
From: Ross Anderson <Ross.Anderson@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: Ross Anderson <Ross.Anderson@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Ryan Lackey:
> A "datahaven country" would have
> to be immune to such tactics -- either having its own strong military
> (China as datahaven) to defend its national interests, political
> connections (Israel?), or enough trade with the US that shutting off
> data commo would be impossible for economic reasons (Singapore?).
A virtual datahaven could be constructed eaily provided you knew how to
index controversial matter.
Publish the rude things about the Prophet Mohammed on a server in Israel,
the anti-Serb rants in Croatia, the kiddyporn in Sweden, the violence in
America, the Nazi hate speech in Syria and the anti-scientology stuff in
Germany.
If someone wants to curse and swear at the whole world at once, then
there is this amazing new invention called hypertext ...
Ross
