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1997-09-15 - Re: The problem of playing politics with our constitutional rights

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To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1997-09-15 16:46:22 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 00:46:22 +0800

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From: nospam-seesignature@ceddec.com
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 00:46:22 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: The problem of playing politics with our constitutional  rights
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On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Lucky Green wrote:

> At 04:36 AM 9/15/97 GMT, Douglas L. Peterson wrote:
> >Ok, we write code.  But as James S. Tyre pointed out, if the code is
> >too difficult to use it will not be.  And as Declan pointed out
> >many/most people will not use the crypto if they must think about it.
> >
> >Writing the code is no longer enough.  The code must be usable by the
> >sheeple to work.  How do we do that?
> 
> Write better code.

I can think of many examples of very bad code that is difficult to use but
is very popular, an obvious one is that Apple wrote better code than MS.

Even most sheeple rely on whatever is built in to MSWord or Excel than on
PGP, so on that basis there is *NO* existing example of such code.

So, not only do cypherpunks have to write code, it has to be better
quality than Apple, with more marketing push than Microsoft.  And it must
do something useful so they also have to invent a new application that
would justify using the crypto it contains. 

All while they do something else to pay for things like food and heat. 

At this point it is easier to write laws.

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