On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 03:44:53PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: (snip) > Other methods seek to eliminate the need for various levels of > pre-knowledge between Bob and Alice, and to also stave off the "round up" > scenario where a large group is examined and cleansed of all electronica, > before data can make it onto the public net. (Less likely in US now, but > easily possible elsewhere).
I don't think you can rule that out in the US -- seems to have been happening a lot in recent times, the pigs corral a large group, keep them stationary for some time, possibly with mass arrest following. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com "War is just a racket ... something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small group knows what its about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses." --- Major General Smedley Butler, 1933 "Our overriding purpose, from the beginning through to the present day, has been world domination - that is, to build and maintain the capacity to coerce everybody else on the planet: nonviolently, if possible, and violently, if necessary. But the purpose of US foreign policy of domination is not just to make the rest of the world jump through hoops; the purpose is to faciliate our exploitation of resources." - Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney General http://www.thesunmagazine.org/bully.html
