[79325] in Cypherpunks
Re: Fingerprint Stego
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Bell)
Wed Apr 30 22:51:08 1997
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 21:15:30 -0800
To: Hal Finney <hal@rain.org>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: jimbell@pacifier.com (Jim Bell)
Reply-To: jimbell@pacifier.com (Jim Bell)
At 17:48 4/29/97 -0700, Hal Finney wrote:
>Last week I saw a program on PBS which discussed some general privacy
>issues and even got into crypto and anonymity. It was part of their
>four-part series on the ideas discussed in the Federalist Papers, called
>"Liberty and Limits".
>
>The show was structured as a panel discussion in which the moderator
>proposes scenarios and asks for reactions by panel members as though
>they were participants in the events. They started off with the case
>of a town which wants to get fingerprints from the new little league
>coach before letting her start working. She was played by the head of
>the ACLU and didn't think much of that idea, of course.
I saw the same show. It was hard to bear listening to that discussion when
it seemed that at least 2/3's of the participants were sucking on the public
tit. I'd like to flail the people in charge of "casting" such a discussion,
pointing out that it should be possible to find plenty of people competent
to participate in it, people who don't depend on stolen tax dollars for
their living.
Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com
