Administrivia: the porn and advertising thread

[Richard Clayton]

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In article <02042717313302.18465@comuno>, phil hunt
<philh@comuno.freeserve.co.uk> writes

>Two questions I'd be interested in people's views on:
>
>(1) if everyone starts using crypto, will it be possible to effectively
>limit the availability of any type of matter (such as child porn, or
>for that matter unauthorised copies of music) over the net?

yes ... the property that would give a problem would be anonymity. It
doesn't really matter how much crypto there is if the source of the
material can be traced.

>(2) if the answer to the first question is "no", will the authorities
>eventually stop trying?

no ... because they would sometimes catch people - achieving perfect
anonymity is rather hard to do.

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richard                                              Richard Clayton

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