The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot
Tim May
tcmay at got.net
Tue Aug 28 08:04:02 PDT 2001
On Monday, August 27, 2001, at 11:20 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> On Monday, August 27, 2001, at 12:56 PM, Tim May wrote:
>> On Monday, August 27, 2001, at 12:40 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote:
>>> "Freedom fighters in communist-controlled regimes." How much money
>>> do they have? More importantly, how much are they willing and able to
>>> spend on anonymity/privacy/black-market technologies? These guys
>>> aren't
>>> rolling in dough.
>>
>> The IRA and the Real IRA have a lot of money, as the Brits have been
>> complaining about recently. Osama bin Laden is said to control more
>> than
>> a billion dollars. And so on. I disagree with you assertion that "these
>> guys aren't rolling in dough."
>
> Members of the IRA are not freedom fighters in a communist-controlled
> country. bin Laden did fall under that definition when he was fighting
> to get the Russians out of Afghanistan but that was a long time ago.
> Now he's opposing American influence in Saudi Arabia.
Your reading comprehension sucks. I gave half a dozen _examples_, one of
them "freedom fighters in communist-controlled regimes" and you assume
this is the only kind of freedom fighter being talked about. No point in
carrying on a conversation with this breathtaking display of literalism.
--Tim May
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