From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 95 21:19:23 PST
To: Jon Lasser <jlasser@rwd.goucher.edu>
Subject: Re: The future will be easy to use
Message-ID: <199512010519.VAA12881@blob.best.net>
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>On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, James A. Donald wrote:
>> This argument makes no sense at all:  I am going to attack my
>> enemies by paying people to send books, computers, and stuff
>> to them?

At 12:39 PM 11/30/95 -0500, Jon Lasser wrote:
>No; you're going to steal from your enemies by having them ship things to 
>you without payment.

Why would I bother to use encryption to encrypt someone elses credit
card number?  This is like arguing that I could use a crypto book
to hit someone over the head with in order to steal their wallet,
or arguing that a firewalled computer can still be attacked with
a sledge hammer.  Irrelevant.

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