All this talk reminds me of Joy's nanotech fears:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html
i.e., you don't download the pepsi or VA Linux box, just the
instructions to make it with your assembler + raw materials :-)
Karl Runge
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Well, yes... clearly you'd have to have some sort of account with pepsi
> that authorized you via some keys, in which case the anonymous would be
> replaced with your matter transfer account name, but I didnt think it was
> necessary to bore people with the gory details of all that...
>
> Although if you WERE using an anonymous transfer protocol, it really would
> obviate the need for encryption since if someone hijacked your stream, you
> could just download another one... BUT, that doesn't protect you from
> those evil-doers who might want to hijack your connection from the SOURCE
> end, and send you their crappy pepsi replacement beverage in hopes of
> getting you hooked on it, so that you'll matter-transfer theirs instead!
>
> Now, as to what the possible benefits of this might be in a world where
> everything is free? Je ne sais pas, mon ami.
>
> On the other hand, you could run into those truly malevolent types who
> want to jam poisonous crap down your matter transfer... that would suck.
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