From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 22:13:03 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Knowledge of TCP/IP
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At 05:56 PM 4/16/96 -0400, Noel Yap wrote:
>Knowledge about TCP/IP is alot easier to control than knowledge about the
Berlin Wall (ie, how many Chinese will even know of the existence of TCP/IP
-- in the US, where this is freely available, how many citizens know of it's
existence)?
>

Applications software distributed commercially or on a "free" basis allows
people who know nothing about TCP/IP or C++ or Visual Basic to use all of
these things to get work done.  They need not understand completely what
they are doing.

DCF