So I was thinking about the power in names -- internet software
deployment is partly governed by it's name. Is the name memorable,
mnemonic, and collision free (matters for search engines)?
I was also thinking about military naming schemes for weapons --
things like peacekeeper -- an inter-continental ballistic missile with
a nuke for a warhead.
What would the cypherpunk technology analog of naming an nuke bearing
ICBM a "peacekeeper".
Weapons of mass destruction seem to get called names relating to
pacifism; so what about technolgoy which provides individual
empowerment and erodes government power.
So we see things like "Freedom", "Harmless Little Project" -- trying
to use persuade the governments to propose "banning freedom".
Then we have names like Dan Farmer's "Satan" -- a tool for detecting
system vulnerabilities, presumably by the system owner, but
potentially by third parties with intent of cracking systems.
But then napster and gnutella have really natty dumb sounding names,
but seem to be popular enough.
-InfoTerroristPunk
