[107860] in Cypherpunks
Sun and Privacy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Schneier)
Tue Jan 26 17:40:47 1999
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:05:24 -0600
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Bruce Schneier <schneier@counterpane.com>
Reply-To: Bruce Schneier <schneier@counterpane.com>
The chief executive officer of Sun Microsystems said Monday that consumer
privacy issues are a "red herring."
"You have zero privacy anyway," Scott McNealy told a group of reporters and
analysts Monday night at an event to launch his company's new Jini
technology.
"Get over it."
The full story is at:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/17538.html
Wow.
Bruce
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