From: "Murray Hayes" <mhayes@infomatch.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:41:35 -0800 (PST)
To: "Matts Kallioniemi" <matts@cyberpass.net>
Subject: Re: Why is cryptoanarchy irreversible?
Message-ID: <199611120841.AAA16334@infomatch.com>
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On Fri, 08 Nov 1996 14:46:56 +0100, Matts Kallioniemi wrote:

>At 17:12 1996-11-07 -0800, jim bell wrote:
>>Simple analogy:  Suppose you put two people into a room with a deck of 
>>playing cards and a table, instructing "Person A" to build a house-of-cards, 
>>and telling "Person B" to stop him from achieving his goal.  Who do you 
>>think will win?  Obviously, the latter will win:  It's vastly easier to 
>>knock such a structure down than to build it in the first place,  and all 
>>"Person B" has to do is occasionally take a whack at the structure. 
>
>What if Person A is better armed? Could that change the outcome?
>
>
>

What if person A has a pack of chewing gum?


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