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1996-05-04 - Re: CryptoAnarchy: What’s wrong with this picture?

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From: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Raw Date: Sat, 4 May 1996 15:20:55 +0800

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From: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
Date: Sat, 4 May 1996 15:20:55 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: CryptoAnarchy: What's wrong with this picture?
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On Fri, 3 May 1996, Michael Loomis wrote:

> circumvent consumption taxation.  Consumption taxation would, of course,
> include a tax on the amount of information coming into your computer.  I
> don't think that the government will have any problem determining the
> quantity of the information & since it will be encrypted anyway, I don't
> see the privacy worries.

Traffic analysis (though remailers would help).

And what about mailbombing? If you're mailbombed, does your tax bill
skyrocket?

I think information has to be free (of tax, anyway), because there is no
way to prove the utlility of information.

-rich

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