From: "Peter D. Junger" <junger@pdj2-ra.F-REMOTE.CWRU.Edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 10:56:50 +0800
To: Cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: Re: Feinstein wants controls on Internet, Books
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Bill Stewart writes:

: Now, there are subtleties to building them that may require 
: some amount of thought, rather than being totally obvious to the builder,
: and there are things that are obvious but are difficult to do.
: 
: For instance, say you, hypothetically, wanted to blow up your government's
: legislative building.  You'd obviously want to pick a dark and stormy night,
: say early in November, and you'd sneak into the basement with barrels
: of gunpowder.  You'd use a long, slow-burning fuse, so it would blow up
: the next day when they're in session, but after lighting it you'd still
: run away very fast just in case your fuse speeds up on you.  The obvious
: thing you'd need to do is to NOT GET CAUGHT LIKE THE LAST FOOL WHO TRIED IT.
: However, if you do get caught, maybe you'll end up with your name in lights
: and people will set off firecrackers in your honor every fall,
: while if you don't get caught you won't be personally famous. Tough choice:-)
: 
: Penny for the Guy?

Did the old Guy and his co-conspirators use crypto?

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Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
Internet:  junger@pdj2-ra.f-remote.cwru.edu    junger@samsara.law.cwru.edu