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an ominous comment
From: Juan <[email protected]>
On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 19:19:38 -0400
Steve Kinney <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 07/22/2015 06:03 PM, Juan wrote:
>>
>> >> The cypherpunks formed a house of many rooms. The only thing
>> >> they all shared was an understanding of the political
> >> significance of cryptography and the willingness to fight for
>> >> privacy and unfettered freedom in cyberspace.
> >>
> >> A flawed understanding it seems.
>
>> Oi, group identity in any anarchist-friendly venue can't be
>> enforced by any kind of coercive authority, else it is not an
>> anarchist-friendly venue. Fighting over the definition of the
>> group is only fun until somebody wins.
> Â What I meant is that cypherpunks seem to put too much
> Â emphasis on the political benefits and 'significance' of
> Â crypto when in reality crypto doesn't really solve political
> Â Â problems.
Not yet, anyway.    Jim Bell
     Â
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