[8875] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
ANNOUNCEMENT: EFF Statement on Cryptography & Policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John E. Kreznar)
Wed Dec 8 21:59:36 1993
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 93 18:48:55 PST
From: jkreznar@ininx.com (John E. Kreznar)
To: mech@eff.org
Cc: eff-talk@eff.org, cypherpunks@toad.com, thesegroups@tic.com,
In-Reply-To: Stanton McCandlish's message of Wed, 8 Dec 1993 18:16:57 -0500 (EST) <199312082316.SAA12799@eff.org>
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> * There must be no broadening of governmental access to private
> communications and records, through wiretap law or otherwise, unless there
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> is a public consensus that the risks to safety outweigh the risks to
> liberty and that our safety will actually be increased by the broadened
> access.
Does this imply that if some ``majority'' so elects, then you _would_
sacrifice your privacy to broadened governmental access? Is this a
surrender to the most tenacious tyranny of all, the tyranny of the
majority? Or do you interpret ``consensus'' rigorously, that is, as
an absence of dissent?
John E. Kreznar | Relations among people to be by
jkreznar@ininx.com | mutual consent, or not at all.
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