Re: Brin on privacy

Max M (maxmcorp@inet.uni-c.dk)
Sat, 21 Dec 1996 13:15:29 +0100


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> From: Michael Lorrey <retroman@tpk.net>
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Re: Brin on privacy
> Date: 21. december 1996 01:37
>
> John K Clark wrote:
> >
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> >
> > Hi David:
> >
> > >brin@cts.com Sun Dec 15
> > >They'll [power centers] still screw us if they ever
get the
> > >chance. Your complacency seems strange, given your
> > >prescription for paranoid encryption.
> >
> > Power exists in society (fortunately, I'd hate to live in a powerless
world)
> > and like matter, energy, information, and everything else in the
Universe,
> > it is not distributed evenly; after all, we've known for more than a
century
> > that the aether does not exist. Raging against power centers is like
raging
> > against electromagnetism.
> >
> > >Bullshit. Kazynski would use PGP if he could.
> >
>
> As would be his right until the moment he actually commits a crime that
> violates another's individual rights. Guns don't kill people, people
> kill people.

How come then that you in the states have twice the amount of gunshot
killings, then we do here in Denmark where privately owned guns are
illegal?

MAX M Rasmussen
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