At 3:49 AM -0800 2/11/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Manifesto?
>
>The continuing struggle for individual liberties and freedoms is ever the
>struggle for the power of communication. The primal man and the wall, the
>sculptor and the veneration, the peacemaker and the prophecy, or the
>tyrant and
>the world.
>
>The individual seeths against society, a struggle to assert one's unique Self,
>to wield a battle for individual reality, for one's Self. To give one's
>Self, or
>to withhold one's Self, the liberty and sanctity of the seat of individual
>consciousness of each sentient being. To exist as a unique form free of
>prejudice and oppression.
>
>In the coming age, cryptography is the quintessential tool to negotiate the
>boundary between what is mine, and what is everyone elses, to protect the
>world
>from me, and to protect me from the world. If ever there was the ideal
>society,
>then such little call would there be for these devices of confusion. Until
>such
>a time
This whole "until we reach perfection" line of reasoning is pernicious.
As David Honig noted in his response, even in "ideal" societies people want
privacy.
In particular, an ideal society will still involve competition, both
personal and commercial. I don't want my rivals reading my plans, no matter
how ideal the society is.
You seem to be thinking of the Eloi as being the ideal society. Feh.
--Tim May
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Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
"Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.
