At 04:30 PM 10/8/00 -0400, you wrote:
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>At 03:33 PM 10/8/2000 -0400, David Honig wrote:
> > Wasn't a "license to drive" on the "info superhighway" bandied about
> > when the latter term was sickeningly popular?
>
>Everything on the internet is a packet with a destination address and a
>re
At 03:33 PM 10/8/00 -0400, you wrote:
>At 02:39 AM 10/8/00 -0400, Steve Furlong wrote:
> >Require ISPs to get a license to operate. Terms can be set arbitrarily
> >high. (Bonus points if you make them pay for the monitoring hardware,
> >software, and governmental labor.)
>
>Wasn't a "license to dr
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At 03:33 PM 10/8/2000 -0400, David Honig wrote:
> Wasn't a "license to drive" on the "info superhighway" bandied about
> when the latter term was sickeningly popular?
Everything on the internet is a packet with a destination address and a
return address. To create a police state on th
At 02:39 AM 10/8/00 -0400, Steve Furlong wrote:
>Require ISPs to get a license to operate. Terms can be set arbitrarily
>high. (Bonus points if you make them pay for the monitoring hardware,
>software, and governmental labor.)
Wasn't a "license to drive" on the "info superhighway" bandied about
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On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Steve Furlong wrote:
> In general, look at what China is doing. Britain and Russia, too.
Britain is doing a lot less than you seem to think. The RIP act
has been passed, but to a rising chorus of protests from all sides,
including industry. Actual implementation of the bill
Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
> >... Restricting strong
> >anonymity means key escrow.)
>
> Perhaps I overstated my argument above. It seems to me that if the Feds
> want to restrict strong anonymity, they have some choices:
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> Anything else?
Routinely monitor communications lines. Allow unlimite
I wrote in another thread:
>framework to reasonably exist. Cypherpunkish technology will create
>underground markets, anonymous distribution methods, and so on, and the
>only way to enforce such regulations will be for the Feds/Mounties to take
>drastic steps. (For instance, strong anonymity is
