Re: Why is cryptoanarchy irreversible?

[ph@netcom.com (Peter Hendrickson)]

At 1:02 PM 11/15/1996, Bill Frantz wrote:
>At  1:44 PM 11/13/96 +0000, Adam Back wrote:
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> A very good idea.  There was some discussion of this kind of thing a
>> while back about doing this for Singapore.  The suggestion at the time
>> was not to do it perfectly, but rather to arrange something simple to
>> allow people to circumvent the censorship enforced through their
>> compulsory use of a government censored web proxy.

> I hope it is ready.  To quote from William Safire's 11/14/96 NYT column:
                                                      ^^^^^^^^

> "Let's run a test.  "Information Technology and Political Control in
> Singapore" is a paper just issued by Prof. Gary Rodan of Murdoch University
> in Perth, Australia, distribued by Chalmers Johnson of the Japan Policy
> Research Institute in Cardiff, Calif.  It's on this web site:
> http://www.nmjc.ord/jpri/.

> "If Lee blocks access, Singaporeans, try E-mail: cjohnson@ucsd.edu.  But be
> careful, global business executives: the Architect of the New Century [Lee
> Kuan Yew - wsf] may be monitoring everything you download."

Guess Safire hits the Cypherpunks list when he needs material!

Peter