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1994-08-31 - Cyberspatial governments?

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From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1994-08-31 05:36:21 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 30 Aug 94 22:36:21 PDT

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From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 94 22:36:21 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Cyberspatial governments?
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	   As Eric likes to point out, the Government is not a huge,
   monolithic enemy.  It is a multitude of huge enemies.  

This was my best joke during my crypto presentation at HOPE a couple
of weeks ago.  I was describing threat models for remailer networks.

1. Recipient -- any indirection works 

2. Sysadmins, and then I added, "or anyone else with root access".
That got a big laugh.

3. Operators of the remailer nodes

4. Gov't -- law enforcement

5. Gov't -- national security

It was during my explanation on why the FBI doesn't really get access
to National Technical Means, e.g. NSA SIGINT, that I got the BIG laugh.

Eric

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