From: an56238@anon.penet.fi (zaaaaaaaap!)
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 09:12:36 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re:quote of the day
Message-ID: <9401271624.AA18691@anon.penet.fi>
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Eric Hughes writes:

>Because of economics and political stability.
>
>You can build computers and monitoring devices in secret, deploy them
>in secret, and listen to _everything_.  To listen to everything with
>bludgeons and pharmaceuticals would not only cost more in labor and
>equipment, but also engender a radicalizing backlash to an actual
>police state.

So, it looks like cryptography boils down to making a lot of noise on the
_everything_ channel, to prevent the state from listening to it, but
that the case of an individual under suspicion is hopeless.

How terrible!

That almost scares you into being honest and paying your taxes and
everything again.

All of you cypherpunks who were hoping to hide your little secrets with
pgp, just forget about it: what cryptography is all about is to make statistics
look bland.

>Of course, if one is paranoid, these considerations of the whole do
>not hold, since for only one person the cost balance is reversed.

But I *am* paranoid, and proudly so, since the age of two. And you would
be too if you were into the business of getting cryptography down into the
real world instead of toying with theoretical ideas in front of a computer
screen.

- -zap


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