1998-04-26 - Re: Position escrow

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From: “Smoking Man” <fibonacciprime@hotmail.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1998-04-26 08:31:20 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 01:31:20 -0700 (PDT)

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From: "Smoking Man" <fibonacciprime@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 01:31:20 -0700 (PDT)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Position escrow
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>    This is a really difficult issue.
>
>And how.  
>
>How does this interact with phones whose     What, like a party line?
>access (telephone) number is non-unique?
>Could where I am calling from be divorced    If the standard of COM
>from what instrument I am using to call?     is uniform, yes.
>Is there a parallel between smearing the
>signal over a spectrum of radio frequencies  Radio frequencies are
>and smearing the identifying information     a physical representation
>over a spectrum of numbers? Could calls      of numbers...YES.
>to 911 carry no phone number but just
>"here I am" information -- a panic button    They could, and what if
>function, in other words?                    you hang-up in distress.
>
>I imagine I sound like someone calling in    There are no experts here.
>to an ASK THE EXPERTS radio show...          They don't broadcast.
>
>--dan
>
>

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