[SGVLUG] Microsoft's nightmare inches closer to reality

[John E. Kreznar]

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matti <mathew_2000 at yahoo.com> writes:

> cheap cpus, disks, and the network results in
> the tech ability to reduce privacy - our congress
> folks passing bad laws the main fault imho.

Cheap CPUs, disks, and the network enable encryption and anonymizing
remailers and nymservers.  These tools provide privacy which is
protected by mathematics, not statute.  Which do you trust more?

To a first approximation, your congress folks are doing pretty much
what their constituents demand.  That's the problem.  If there's a
popular loss of respect for privacy, then privacy is at risk.

 --
 If George Orwell were alive now he would be astonished by the fact
 that the sort of surveillance he feared is supported not by a
 government imposing it from above on an unwilling population but by a
 groundswell of popular support.

 -- Victor Keegan, Guardian Unlimited, Thursday August 4, 2005
 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5254923-103572,00.html>

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 John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13
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