On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, An Metet wrote:
> It has come to Our attention that official cpunk maillist is swarming
> with posts related to "law" and "legal" issues.
One must understand the enemy to defeat them.
> Law is just a brainwashing system designed to lower the cost of
> maintaining of the status quo. Once entangled in "legal" issues one
> becomes a part of the system for maintaining the said status quo.
Not having law is a system for lowering the cost of the status quo as
well. Ask any Anarcho-Capitalist...
> Most pathetic are references to "constitution", a manifest of thugs
> that wanted to get rid of foreign thugs so that they can have a
> dominion of their own.
Actually it's demonstrably more effective than any anarcho mechanism
demonstrated to date. To date the best we can get is 'what if'...
> Fuck that.
Unsubscribe info at,
http://einstein.ssz.com/cdr
> Cypherpunk Movement is about using technology to overcome law and its
> owners and servants. CM is about using mathematics and physics to
> neutralize influence of armed gangs in everyday life. It has its
> limits, but they have not been reached. Not at all.
Gee, and I thought it was about increasing personal freedom...
> So We would like to propose some projects, in pseudo-random order, and
> hear your valued opinion about this wish list. Everything starts with
> a wish:
>
> 1 - exclusively anonymous posting/access to this list. If we can't do
> it, no one can. Let's get rid of possibility of meatspace
> interference. If you need to feed your ego here you are in deep shit.
Already available if you don't mind working for it, and spreading a little
'trust' around.
> 2 - development of distributed serverless "web". It becomes clear that
> all computer-related threats by armed gangs depend on being able to
> locate a stationary machine. There are several technologies available
> for this, the most recent one being gnutella distributed directory
> service. This should take care of ICANN issues, IP tracking and legal
> vulnerability in general.
Go buy Plan 9 and start a distributed resources project like 'Hangar 18'
http://einstein.ssz.com/hangar18
(Hint: buy lots of video cards)
> 3 - personal encryption devices that enable crypto everywhere. PGP on
> palmtop that can work with internet cafe computers. OCRing the screen
> and typing through the keyboard interface. This is doable today.
Something I brought up at the last Austin Cypherpunks meeting. If you're
in Austin some time, stop on by.
> 4 - trial/mock deployment of fully anonymous e-cash. We can use it to
> pay for the beer and eloquent denigration of Choate while debugging
> and perfecting the system.
Working on it, see 'Hangar 18'.
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