From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Wed Sep 19 17:48:20 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 20 Sep 2001 00:48:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 75214 invoked from network); 20 Sep 2001 00:48:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 20 Sep 2001 00:48:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta2 with SMTP; 20 Sep 2001 00:48:19 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.11.6/8.11.2/ITS-5.0/student) with ESMTP id f8K0mFS14310 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 18:48:15 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 18:48:15 -0600 (MDT) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] terrorists using lojban In-Reply-To: <9ob5ff+fo86@eGroups.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE From: Jay Kominek On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 thinkit8@lycos.com wrote: > since lojban is itself somewhat of a code, i doubt the feds would > bother to check up on this before the incident. afterwards, you'd > get a lot more lojban experts, particularly in the government. of > course these guys aren't particularly the logical type ("there's a > magical place full of virgins you will go to when you die"). ba le nu do morsi ku do klama le makfa stuzi be vono balvi gletu ninmu Nothing says logical means rational. However, there are significantly easier ways to encrypt things such that the government can't figure out what they are. (There are significantly easier ways to avoid having ones information compromised, especially with the processing power of modern computers. So why bother with Lojban?) (Also, is this kind of thing appropriate at this time?) - Jay Kominek Plus =C3=A7a change, plus c'est la m=C3=AAme chose