[107871] in Cypherpunks
RE: Sun and Privacy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blanc)
Wed Jan 27 00:40:42 1999
From: "Blanc" <blancw@cnw.com>
To: <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 21:26:53 -0800
In-reply-to: <19990127020005.2474.qmail@nym.alias.net>
Reply-To: "Blanc" <blancw@cnw.com>
From Anonymous through lcs Mixmaster:
: Oops, but we aren't supposed to say that, are we? Scott McNealy has
: shouted that the emperor is naked, and our reaction is to stone McNealy
: to death.
...........................................
Scott McNealy also apparently said "Get over it". That is why he is under fire.
He has noticed the absence of clothing, and determined that nudity is nothing to worry about - not
because it's a good thing, but simply because .... because personal coverings have been reduced.
If he thinks it's okay to be on full display that's his business, but to propose to everyone that
it's their personal problem if they find it uncomfortable, means that his State of Mind is different
from the rest of ours (he also thinks that having everyone hooked up to one central computer is
better than each of us having our own harddrive and our own software and, in general, our own
separate resources).
He is a Borg.
His message to us that resistance is not only futile, but is in fact irrelevant - that being
transparent is a way of life, now, and we should all stop criticizing our reductio ad adsurdum as
if personal authority over this situation mattered anymore.
Acquiescing to the given conditions as the default "given" is not acceptable.
..
Blanc
