[12630] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Tue May 24 22:57:19 1994
Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 16:12:52 -0400
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: paul@vix.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9405240700.AA16884@gw.home.vix.com> (message from Paul A Vixie on Tue, 24 May 1994 00:00:26 -0700)
>From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
>> If you want anonymity there's nothing to stop you from getting a phone
>> number from telco just for this usage and don't plug a phone into it
>> (heck, ask them if you could please NOT even have it physically
>> installed.) In many areas that would cost you as little as $5/month
>> for the privilege, and generally not more than around $15 or so.
>
>anonymity must be the default. something you have to consciously and
>explicitly want to not have before you stop having it.
I could accept "MY PREFERENCES ARE that anonymity must be the default"
more easily, but whatever.
If that's the case then I think we'd better re-think everything.
This idea that your telephone number is the front gate of privacy is
not an idea likely to last too much longer, if it's even true today.
I seem to remember intervening in crackers logged in as root on
someone's personal home machine not too long ago...wouldn't shock me
if there was a lot more privacy at stake in that case than just having
someone's phone number. At least mere phone numbers don't hold
megabytes of personal email, memos, etc. They just ring.
Also, this began over the unmanagability of the .com domain, a set of
phone numbers not generally considered private.
-Barry Shein
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