From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 17:38:57 +0800
To: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
Subject: Re: CryptoAnarchy: What's wrong with this picture?
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> 
> 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?)

Watch your attributation, this is my quote.

> 
> 	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
> 

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