Tim mysteriously leaves out the part when he was targeted for radicalisation
by certain third-parties.
*only kidding* before I am accused of trying to "trigger a raid."
You say tomatoe...they say tomhatoe. You say needs killin'...they say needs
raidin'...
~Aimee
Tim May wrote:
> And I really did not get started on this path toward "crypto anarchy"
> because I was _seeking_ anarchy as some sort of utopian fantasy. In
> fact, I had largely moved away from politics by the mid-70s, and was
> not very political in the 1987-88 period when I figured out that the
> technologies then emerging would make new forms of anarchy nearly
> inevitable.
>
> (As I have explained several times, but will do so once again, I was
> evaluating the business plan of Phil Salin, a friend who was trying
> to get funding for an "information markets" company he called AmIX.
> AmIX was essentially a 1987-88 verision of EBay, with more of a focus
> on consulting services than Pez dispensers and Star Wars memorabilia.
> It eventually got funding from Autodesk, the maker of Autocad, along
> with its sister company Xanadu. Both eventually went out of business.
> Ahead of their times, poor management, whatever. Anyway, I evaluated
> Phil's idea and dug up some of Chaum's papers and applied the
> concepts to create a hypothetical "Blacknet" market for corporate and
> other information. Over the next few years, I developed the ideas for
> a novel I was working on...never finished. As one example, I worked
> out how image and soundfile steganography would work, and wrote
> perhaps the first proposal for "LSB" stego. The implications were
> pretty easy to figure out--every week or so from 1988 to 1991
> produced new conclusions about things Cypherpunks now take for
> granted.)
>
> So, I don't present anarchy or crypto anarchy as "utopian," merely as
> "nearly unavoidable." Which makes it interesting to study. Heinlein
> called this the "if this goes on..." viewpoint.
>
> Issues of morality are usually pedestrian when compared to inevitability.
>
>
> --Tim May
> --
> Timothy C. May [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corralitos, California
> Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon
> Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go
> Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns
