From: "Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 17:54:12 +0800
To: Subir Grewal <grewals@acf2.NYU.EDU>
Subject: Re: [SCARE]:  "If you only knew what we know..."
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On 27 May 96 at 0:22, Subir Grewal wrote:

> Real world anonymity is difficult to buy, and actions such as murder
> (or what you'd like to call "self-defense") take place in the real
> world.

But that is the principle by which AP operates.  That *is* the whole 
point that seems to miss you: encryption technologies makes that 
perfectly feasible.  I agree that it is a novelty in the history of 
humankind...

> I'd expect a realization of AP to promote a great backlash from a
> variety of quarters.  Such methods, besides being unethical, are
> probably going to be used as fodder to infringe the liberties of
> others.

During the transition period, definitely.

>In other words, a witch-hunt will result, AP advocates
> marginalized (if they are discovered).  My original reservations, on
> the grounds of unjust means still stand, maybe we can return to this
> discussion sometime later.

Why, is it becoming too hot?  Are you tempted to send the cops at Jim 
Bell's place?


> "Religious" fanatics have great appeal, I don't think even AP will
> make them "go away", the odds are they'll become martyrs.  And we
> know where that takes us.

Against *whom* will they retaliate?  And more down to earth, I bet
that in the advent of AP becoming operationnal, their leaders will
go down even faster than our own.


> I wasn't talking about the legal system in an AP world, but the idea
> that AP is justice in some sense.

"In a competition between a pickpocket and a murderer, hte murderer 
always win"
		-Ayn Rand

> Incidentally, a purely civil law
> court is what I'd like as well, and competing courts and arbitration
> systems sound good to me.

Since you said yourself that the actual govt will *never* relinquish 
power, I find that statement a bit of a contradiction.


JFA
PLEASE NOTE: THIS POST DOES NOT MEAN THAT I ENDORSE MR. BELL'S
SYSTEM.  MY RATIONNAL CONCLUSIONS ABOUT IT'S INTERNAL MECHANICS
AND IT'S INTRINSIC LOGICS DOES NOT MEAN THAT I LIKE NOR ENDORSE
THE SYSTEM. I SIMPLY CONCLUDED THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PREVENT
THE SYSTEM FROM BEING IMPLEMENTED.  IMO, IT IS UNAVOIDABLE.

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