From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 12:40:16 +0800
To: ichudov@Algebra.COM (Igor Chudov)
Subject: Re: This judge needs killing
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At 9:26 PM -0700 11/14/97, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
>Tim May wrote:
>> (Hey, if the Paladin case withstands Supreme Court scrutiny and his upheld,
>> look for the Cypherpunks list node distributors to face criminal charges.)
>
>I do not think that it is entirely impossible either, but the likely
>scenario is that the government may first try to harass us and attempt
>the criminal charges only after some time.
>
>In any case, the present structure of cypherpunks list is entirely
>unacceptable. We have only three working nodes. This is bad since all
>of these nodes reside in the US and can be taken out easily.
>
>Besides government raids, we are all too susceptible on things like
>internet providers kicking us out, hard drives failing, and so on.
>Theree nodes is not a good redundancy.
>
>I plead foreign cypherpunks to at least establish backup nodes that could
>be turned on should anything happen to the US-based ones.

I said this several years ago and I'll say it again: the Usenet is already
set up for multinational, distributed, essentially uncensorable
communication.

I used to try to copy many of my posts to alt.cypherpunks shortly after it
was created, right after the the Great February End of Toad.com, but in
recent months I haven'te bothered (mainly because no interesting
communication was occurring in the alt.cypherpunks arena).

One need only look to Usenet for a robust, automatically (and
automagically) distributed system.

--Tim May


The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography
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