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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