From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 11:02:24 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: FRB Crypto Systems
Message-ID: <199711120250.DAA02358@basement.replay.com>
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Anon-To: cypherpunks@toad.com

John Young wrote: 
> Federal Register, November 10, 1997
> Excerpt from a Federal Reserve Bank announcement:
> 
>       ... the Reserve Banks plan to change their policy
> for ownership of the encryption boards used by depository
> institutions with dial and multi-drop connections. These
> encryption boards are currently purchased and owned by the
> depository institutions. With the replacement of the
> encryption boards beginning in the second half of 1998 to
> enhance the security of the Federal Reserve's communications
> network, the Reserve Banks plan to purchase and assume
> ownership of these boards.

  Not that they are preparing to take fascist control of all 
electronic funds in preparation for the coming Financial Holocaust.
  Has anyone that you can't look *anywhere* in the government
regulatory scheme without seeing signs of preparation for 
*seizing* control of information, finances and communications?

  I remember going into a black bar in a very bad neighborhood
in Seattle and being befriended by the nicest black man in the
whole world. After sharing intimate buddy-buddy details of his
life with me he suggested that if I gave him my wallet to hold
then I wouldn't have to worry about some of the "bad" black
people in the establishment robbing me.
  I didn't give him my wallet, but I _did_ vote for him. {;>)

El !Fool