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The Best Defense Against Rubber-Hose Cryptanalysis

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

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Can Crypto Currency Resist Tyranny?

crypto currency has some utility in defeating financial censorship. The best defence against rubber hose crypt analysis is a political process that answers to voters, not donors. Every billionaire isn't merely a policy failure. Every billionaire is an engine for producing policy failures. Use of crypt graphy to sideline institutions only exasperates our problems. Only people that benefits on the long term are the corrupt,. People who don't have to fear rubber hoses because they get to order their use. We wrote it. That's all we wanted to do. And any one caused singing it without our permission, we'll be a mighty good friend of ourn cause we don't give a durn. Publish it. Write

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