[105044] in Cypherpunks
RE: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the Foregone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew James Gering)
Thu Nov 5 00:39:22 1998
From: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net>
To: "Cypherpunks (E-mail)" <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 21:20:34 -0800
Reply-To: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net>
> They're bound by economics and nothing else, not even the
> government cats.
Which is preferable IMHO, and I think most here agree (at least in this
context). As soon as you give some entity (e.g. government) the power of
force to regulate privacy, you create an entity that will abuse that force
and abuse privacy. Plus such regulations are a false security blanket that
diminishes demand for true privacy-creating tools (cryptography) -- not to
mention you current regime turns around and attacks those tools.
Being bound by the law of economics is generally a good thing.
Matt
