From: Al Billings <mimir@io.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 16:46:09 PDT
To: "Patrick G. Bridges" <patrick@CS.MsState.Edu>
Subject: Re: Encryption in Fiction (DKM's _The Long Run_)
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On Mon, 1 Aug 1994, Patrick G. Bridges wrote:

> In _The Long Run _(tLR), the Network on Earth is essentially uncontrolled
> despite the best efforts of the government because it was created without their
> direct control; it's creation was over and done with before they could get
> their nosy little fingers involved. Meanwhile, the Lunar network (separate from
> the Earth network becasue of the time it takes data to go from earth to the
> moon and back) is stricly controlled by the Lunar Information Network Key
> (LINK), an encryption system which monitors all traffic on the network and must
> approve all transactions.  (Of course, all government transactions are
> "pre-approved"...)
> 
> Sounds sort of cliiper-esque, eh?
> 
> Of course, the hero of the book, Trent, doesn't like this system...  :-)

This is one of my favorite books as well.. You should have mentioned that 
Trent (the uncatchable) dislikes LINK so much that he STEALS it from 
under the nose of the government to free the Lunar network. No LINK, no 
monitoring and while the network is in chaos, the other hackers (players) 
and such can reorganize the system.

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