Re: "lifeguard(?)": bullet tracking system???

>C'punks,
>
>On Sun, 29 May 1994, Arsen Ray Arachelian wrote:
>
>> Hey guys, I heard a blurb on the radio a few days abo about something called
>> "lifeguard" which can track the source of gunfire.  My guess is that they

[snip]
and Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com> replied,

[much really spiffy stuff about shooting the shooter(or not) "elided" as
they say around here...]



uh, is this *really* cryptography?

[sorry...]



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> [snip]
> and Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com> replied,
> 
> [much really spiffy stuff about shooting the shooter(or not) "elided" as
> they say around here...]
> 
> 
> 
> uh, is this *really* cryptography?
> 
> [sorry...]

The only place you're likely to find only info on crypto is [drum roll please]
sci.crypt on usenet news. :-)  While crypto is the main focus of cypherpunks,
occasionally other <important> issues do come up.

Privacy, the evils of the state, microphones in Dunkin Donuts, etc. are
certainly of interest to the denizens of cypherpunks, and so quite on topic.
:-P


We'z stoned immaculate...

C'punks,

On Sun, 29 May 1994, Robert Hettinga wrote:

> . . .
> [snip]
> and Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com> replied,
> 
> [much really spiffy stuff about shooting the shooter(or not) "elided" as
> they say around here...]
> 
> 
> 
> uh, is this *really* cryptography?
> 
> [sorry...]

No need to apologize, Robert.  We all make mistakes.

Well, it is about privacy (all those microphones wouldn't have to just
listen for gunshots) and about empowering the police state.  As I see it,
Cypherpunks aren't primarily interested in crypto as an end, but rather as
a means to an end.  I'll leave the determination of what end(s) we have 
in mind.  Probably, though, they would strongly overlap with concern about 
a police state with ubiquitous microphones, and (doG forbid) automated 
machine guns.

Think about it.


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