[86589] in Cypherpunks
Re: The problem of playing politics with our constitutional rights
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Douglas L. Peterson)
Mon Sep 15 01:24:44 1997
From: fnorky@geocities.com (Douglas L. Peterson)
To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Cc: "James S. Tyre" <j.s.tyre@worldnet.att.net>,
Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, Syniker@aol.com, wathab@tiac.net,
fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu, cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 04:37:01 GMT
In-Reply-To: <v03007834b03f19c50d45@[207.94.249.39]>
Reply-To: fnorky@geocities.com (Douglas L. Peterson)
On Fri, 12 Sep 1997 09:11:18 -0700, you wrote:
>At 10:05 PM -0700 9/11/97, James S. Tyre wrote:
>>So, the last rhetorical question -- how do you convince someone who's
>>never used a browser (the vast majority of the voting populace, I'd
>>think) why crypto is important?
>
>When I walk through South-of-Market in San Francisco and hear people
>trading URL in conversation as the walk down the street and see URLs on =
TV,
>Billboards and even the side of busses, I wonder if this assumption is
>really true.
>
A lot of these are the same people who think nothing of giving their
Credit Card numbers over the phone. Or use the word "SECRET" for a
password. Until they get burned, they don't think about the problem.
-Doug
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