From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 14:18:25 +0800
To: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <unicorn@schloss.li
Subject: Re: CryptoAnarchy: What's wrong with this picture?
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At 01:44 PM 5/6/96 EDT, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:

>
>On Sun, 28 Apr 1996, jim bell wrote:
>
>[...]
>
>>While strong cryptography is powerful, and secure communications
>>liberating, unplugging the phones would about cripple that 'weapon' for a
>>while.  Any group rebelling based only on high technology communication is
>>an extremely vulnerable group, both to widespread denial of service, and
>>more specific 'surgical' attacks.  (Motorola stock anyone?)
>
>	Wouldn't that partially depend on:
>		A. the level of backups - packet radio as a backup for phones,
>for instance... a reason I've been forwarding the stuff on radio to here.
>		B. the necessity to the government of keeping what else may
>depend on those phones - the economy - going.
>	-Allen


The attribution above is in error.  I didn't type those lines above.Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com