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1996-04-29 - Re: CryptoAnarchy: What’s wrong with this picture?

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From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
To: mkj@october.segno.com
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UTC Datetime: 1996-04-29 02:20:44 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 10:20:44 +0800

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From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 10:20:44 +0800
To: mkj@october.segno.com
Subject: Re: CryptoAnarchy: What's wrong with this picture?
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On Sun, 28 Apr 1996 mkj@october.segno.com wrote:

[...]

> Most other arguments put forth so far in this thread, about how people
> "won't stand for" certain government behaviors and so forth, I don't
> find convincing.  Modern military technologies, especially in the
> U.S., make the prospects of a sucessful popular uprising dubious.

C.f., Chechnya, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Columbia.  See Also Generally,
various and numerous publications on the successes of low and medium
intensity conflict campaigns against modern armies.

(Note that I don't think it will come to this in the United States, but
your assumption is a faulty one).

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