[108224] in Cypherpunks
RE: CLINTON PROPOSES $1.4 BILLION FOR COMPUTER SECURITY
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blanc)
Tue Feb 9 02:42:58 1999
From: "Blanc" <blancw@cnw.com>
To: <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 23:17:18 -0800
In-Reply-To: <199902090510.AAA18633@panix7.panix.com>
Reply-To: "Blanc" <blancw@cnw.com>
Quote from forwarded message:
: The line between foreign and domestic threats
: "is getting really hazy," warns William Banks,
: a Syracuse University expert in national-security
: law.
........................................
Points:
. The U.S. vs Them doesn't exactly fit
. The Govmt vs Us doesn't either, since they can't trust "their own" to stay pure & loyal
. Us vs The Govmt isn't useful either, since many of those who cooperate with it and promote its
growth are "civilians" among us
Therefore the "Us vs Them" model isn't the most useful way to establish boundary lines, as there are
so many exceptions. It must be 'this kind of person' vs 'that kind of person'. As in, The
Brilliant & Moral vs The Toadies. Or something like that.
..
Blanc
