From: "Edwin E. Smith" <edsmith@IntNet.net>
Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 20:29:45 -0700 (PDT)
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Subject: Re: A new Swiss banking novel
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At 07:43 PM 5/4/98 -0700, you wrote:
>At 6:19 PM -0700 5/4/98, Edwin E. Smith wrote:
>
>>I agree completely. While I support the right to own guns (and 
nukes)
>>by anyone, guns can be used both ofensively and defensevely while
>>crypto can only be used defensevely.
>>
>>That is unless you put PGP on a stack of diskettes, glue them
>>together and whack somebody with them.
>
>Sorry, but this is nonsense.
>
>Crypto can and has been used just like any other weapon. The freedom
>fighters in Burma who use PGP to communicate securely and to plan 
bombings
>against their oppressors...how can this be said to be "only 
defensive"?
>
>I've said this many times, so I won't spend more time here. All 
"defensive"
>weapons have "offensive" uses. Even shields, even armor, even 
crypto.
>
>To think otherwise is to show no awareness of history.
>
>
>--Tim May
>
>
>"The tree of liberty must be watered periodically with the blood of
>tyrants...."
>---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------
:----
>Timothy C. May              | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital 
money,
>ComSec 3DES:   408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital 
pseudonyms, zero
>W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA  | knowledge, reputations, information 
markets,
>Licensed Ontologist              | black markets, collapse of 
governments.
>
>
>
>

I suppose that you would consider a forearm raised against a baton to 
be offensive also!

Edwin
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