But the same technologies make it possible for a cyberspatial police state to develop. The race is on. Duncan Frissell and Sandy Sandfort often point out just how unenforceable the existing laws are, how few people comply with the tax laws, and how the internationalization of commerce has made national borders into permeable membranes. I hope we will. We Cypherpunks may be remembered by generations hence as the MinuteMen of this revolution.
National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway.