From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 05:56:01 -0800 (PST)
To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Cats Out of Bags
Message-ID: <199701311356.FAA14178@toad.com>
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At 12:10 AM 1/31/97 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
>On this point, the other governments are correct.
>It really _is_ tougher to maintain a nation-state when your
>former subjects can have private conversations with each other
>and with other governments' former subjects......
>And even 56 bits is a start.

You don't have to be nice to nation states you meet on the way up if you're not coming back down.

DCF