[46370] in Cypherpunks
Re: Why Net Censorship Doesn't Work
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Fletcher)
Wed Jan 3 13:32:44 1996
To: cman@communities.com (Douglas Barnes)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Mike Fletcher <fletch@ain.bls.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Jan 1996 15:56:54 MST."
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Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 10:37:39 -0500
> One of my co-workers has pointed out that the need for something as
> simple as a helper application for Netscape loses about 90% of his
> audience. By simply making it rather more difficult for people to
> chat about some things, governments can effectively push such things
> out of the way of all but the most determined readers.
Ah, but consider what happens when Java (or Java-esque platform
independant executable content) really takes off.
Gee, your browser doesn't know how to view image/stego?
Just pull down https://foobaz.com/isView.class and off you go. (Or your
browser will pull it down automagically for you and pay the author for
it from your ewallet. Or it could rent a copy from Blockbuster(tm)
Applets. You get the idea :) Software will become less and less what your
machine has and more what it has access to.
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