[48116] in Cypherpunks
Re: "This post is G-Rated"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Baugh)
Fri Jan 26 03:55:47 1996
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 00:48:47 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Bruce Baugh <bruceab@teleport.com>
At 08:06 PM 1/25/96 -0800, Johnathan Corgan <jcorgan@aeinet.com> wrote:
>This would allow to emerge a free market 'ecology' of ratings agencies,
>similar to the system that has emerged in the PC technology
>market for product reviews.
This seems to me a task of crucial importance, as I listen to the
conversations of relatively net-clueless folks. Their first reaction, upon
learning about net abuse, is to demand that abusers be tracked down and
punished. Privacy-enhancing tools make this more difficult. It seems to me
that if we're to avoid a wholescale crusade against net privacy, we _really_
need to have a credible alternative to offer: both the software and the
wetware :-) to let individuals screen out offending drek. Having canned
solutions is especially important, since many of the people most susceptible
to anti-privacy propaganda are precisely those who don't know and likely
aren't going to know how to construct their own filters.
I see this as a matter of enlightened self-interest, therefore.
I can't write code worth squat, but I can write other things. I'm starting
in on a Web-based guide to privacy tools, with screen shots and the like. If
anyone has useful info to contribute about screening out crud for novices,
write me! I need to hear from you!
Bruce Baugh
bruceab@teleport.com
http://www.teleport.com/~bruceab
