CDR: Re: anonymous digital cash and other (now) iffy stuff

[Jim Choate]

No, it's the lack of a credible threat of such a system being put in
place. Once the system is in place it is too late to impliment crypto to
recover.

There are other similar cause-effect logic errors in your arguments as
well.


On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Ryan Lackey wrote:

> The greatest enemy of secure electronic mail, for instance, being widely
> deployed is the LACK of widespread monitoring.  If every internet
> connection in the US were monitored actively, and the contents were
> routinely used in civil and criminal legal actions, technologies
> like ZKS Freedom, PGP, SSL would be in far wider use than they are now.


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