[104034] in Cypherpunks
Re: [Fwd: [Spooks] British Telecom-Menwith Hill connection]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petro)
Thu Oct 8 15:01:55 1998
In-Reply-To: <361BB603.6F40C570@brainlink.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 13:26:13 -0500
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
From: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
Reply-To: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
At 1:42 PM -0500 10/7/98, Sunder wrote:
> BT were ordered to pay the legal costs caused by their change of
>heart. The judge accused them of giving away
> confidential commercial information and national secrets. "If I had a
>burglar alarm system, I would now think twice about
> having it operated by BT", he said.
>
If I lived in the U.K. (well, truth be told even here in the U.S.)
I'd think twice about a criminal "justice" system run by the government.
--
"To sum up: The entire structure of antitrust statutes in this country is a
jumble of economic irrationality and ignorance. It is a product: (a) of a
gross misinterpretation of history, and (b) of rather naïve, and certainly
unrealistic, economic theories." Alan Greenspan, "Anti-trust"
http://www.ecosystems.net/mgering/antitrust.html
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