[44330] in Cypherpunks
Re: The future will be easy to use
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Fri Dec 1 00:24:40 1995
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 21:17:02 -0800
To: Jon Lasser <jlasser@rwd.goucher.edu>
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Cc: Carl Ellison <cme@TIS.COM>, raph@c2.org, cypherpunks@toad.com
>On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, James A. Donald wrote:
>> This argument makes no sense at all: I am going to attack my
>> enemies by paying people to send books, computers, and stuff
>> to them?
At 12:39 PM 11/30/95 -0500, Jon Lasser wrote:
>No; you're going to steal from your enemies by having them ship things to
>you without payment.
Why would I bother to use encryption to encrypt someone elses credit
card number? This is like arguing that I could use a crypto book
to hit someone over the head with in order to steal their wallet,
or arguing that a firewalled computer can still be attacked with
a sledge hammer. Irrelevant.
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