From: Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 21:30:47 -0700 (PDT)
To: Maurice Valmont <Maurice@fundi.com>
Subject: Re: Mysterious taglines
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At 11:54 PM 8/5/98 -0400, Maurice Valmont wrote:
>
>At 04:55 PM 8/5/98 -0700, Tim May <tcmay@got.net> wrote in his .sig:
>
>>"The tree of liberty must be watered periodically with the blood of
>>tyrants...."
>
>I suspect this is unlikely to happen until the oppressed realize that the
>tree 
>of liberty needs also be watered with the blood of patriots.

It also needs to be fertilized with the bullshit of propaganda and sprayed
with the insecticide of secrecy.

>>Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
>>anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
>>knowledge, reputations, information markets,
>>black markets, collapse of governments.
>
>I'm curious: What exactly is "zero knowledge"?

It is a protocol used by certain political and religious orders.  It can be
boiled down to "What I don't know, can't hurt me.".

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