[14406] in Cypherpunks
Re: "lifeguard(?)": bullet tracking system???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sandy Sandfort)
Sun May 29 22:30:28 1994
Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 15:06:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199405292202.SAA05375@zork.tiac.net>
C'punks,
On Sun, 29 May 1994, Robert Hettinga wrote:
> . . .
> [snip]
> and Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com> replied,
>
> [much really spiffy stuff about shooting the shooter(or not) "elided" as
> they say around here...]
>
>
>
> uh, is this *really* cryptography?
>
> [sorry...]
No need to apologize, Robert. We all make mistakes.
Well, it is about privacy (all those microphones wouldn't have to just
listen for gunshots) and about empowering the police state. As I see it,
Cypherpunks aren't primarily interested in crypto as an end, but rather as
a means to an end. I'll leave the determination of what end(s) we have
in mind. Probably, though, they would strongly overlap with concern about
a police state with ubiquitous microphones, and (doG forbid) automated
machine guns.
Think about it.
S a n d y
