13.8.1. Clipper met with disdain and scorn, so now new strategies are
being tried...
13.8.2. Strategies are shifting, Plan B is being hauled out
- fear, uncertainty, and doubt
- fears about terrorists, pornographers, pedophiles, money
launderers
13.8.3. corporate leaders like Grove are being enlisted to make the
Clipper case
13.8.4. Donn Parker is spreading panic about "anarchy" (similar to my
own CA)
13.8.5. "What can be done in the face of moves to require national ID
cards, use official public key registries, adhere to key
escrow laws, etc?"
- This is the most important question we face.
- Short of leaving the country (but for where?) or living a
subsistence-level lifestyle below the radar screens of the
surveillance state, what can be done?
+ Some possibilities, not necessarily good ones:
+ civil disobedience
- mutilation of cards, "accidental erasure," etc.
- forgeries of cards...probably not feasible (we understand
about digital sigs)
- creation of large black markets...still doesn't cover
everything, such as water, electricity, driver's
licenses, etc....just too many things for a black market
to handle
- lobby against these moves...but it appears the momentum
is too strong in the other direction
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