From: "Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>
Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 07:21:27 -0700 (PDT)
To: "Cypherpunks" <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: Re: Explaining crypto to people (was Re: A new Swiss banking novel)
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On Tue, 5 May 1998 01:48:02 -0500 (CDT), Xcott Craver wrote:

> Now, I'm not saying analogies are evil, but the analogy
> to firearms is a *bad* one, and it stands to give people
> the misconception that crypto is many things that it is 
> not (not to mention including <stigma.h>).

I agree on you opinion of the use of analogies, at large.  
The stigma is real (as in "happening") but it is nevertheless a load of bull
since it is the result of the population misconceptions, of being brainwasher by the apostles of 
political correctness.  

The quintessential aspects of guns in a free society is that they are Liberty's teeths.
Crypto is also the same, only after the teeths have been bashed in...

I argued this over the Canadian Firearms Digest list.

Ciao

jfa

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