Tim May wrote:
On Friday, December 20, 2002, at 12:34 PM, Michael Cardenas wrote:Anonymous wrote:Like I said before, P2P, Crypto, WiFi and cheap chips will turn everything upside down.I'm curious as to what makes you, or anyone on this list, think that these technologies by themselves will cause any sort of political upheaval. Lawrence Lessig has talked about how technologies, as long as they're created and controlled by people and corporations operating within the laws and boundaries of some country, can be regulated to express the will of governments. Your MAC address is already sent out in every packet that your machine generates, so with that, a "snoop" could tell a whole hell of a lot about what you're doing. What's to say that these technologies are not going to be shaped to meet the needs and wants of the transnational corporations that run our government?
Remailers and Web proxies work in ways that skirt this "transparency" of MACs and routing that you are referring to. These are the types of technologies we are discussing. The fact that Disney or Lockheed may be using Carnivore- and Echelon-vulnerable technologies does not challenge the points about how better technologies will "turn everything upside down."
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There are other forms of traffic besides email that are significant.
These sorts of things have been covered in many of the past messages on this list and in tutorials and reviews. I recommend my own article in Vernor Vinge's "True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier." Still being sold at Borders and other bookstores, so you can read my article there for free.
I've read your article there, and it was very interesting. That's why I'm here. I just didn't see the bridge from the technology to the revolution clearly articulated in your essay either.
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