Long term strategy turned lost horizon

 Backstab flying low though clouds on instruments and low on gas.  His Twink is going to kill him.

> 5) the lack of any major pressing crypto prosecutions (no threats to 
> PRZ, no Bernstein case, no crypto export laws to speak of) has taken a 
> lot of the "sex appeal" (or revolutionary fervor) out of the crypto 
> issue. Crypto is getting back to being just the same boring math and 
> protocols that it was before it got to be so hot. (Related to the fact 
> that the really cool stuff which motivated the early CP meetings and 
> list discussions has been longer in coming, or is not coming at all, or 
> is not related to job searches!)

I think there are a number of interesting aspects to distributed
storage.  As well as largely cypherpunks irrelevant aspects such as
off-site storage, scaling to cope with flash-crowds, persistent
site-independent URLs (so called URIs); there is scope for censor
resistance, publisher and reader anonymity, and possibly anonymous
micropayments to pay for bandwidth leading towards a world where web
content delivery service could replace the web, and established
content distribution networks such as TV, radio, news.  The barrier to
entry would be lowered, and the mundane massively biased pap that
passes for news on the networks for example could be replaced by real
reporting of all sides of the issue with smaller news companies.

Also if the infrastructure were there, the space could be a
replacement as well as for the web, for distribution and archive for
USENET, personal email boxes living in the net, movie archives, etc. . . . "