From: roy@sendai.cybrspc.mn.org (Roy M. Silvernail)
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 94 20:45:21 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Why to Care about Others' Security
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In list.cypherpunks, mmarkley@microsoft.com writes:

> FutureNerd writes

> | 1) The more people protect their privacy, the less profit there is in
> | privacy invasion, so that there will be fewer people doing it and
> | the techniques and infrastructure of spying might develop more
> | slowly.
> 
> It seems that the more people protect their privacy the greater the
> profit will be in finding ways to invade that privacy.

I don't think that's necessarily true. There may be a greater
incentive to penetrate privacy, but the penetration comes at greater
cost. When costs go up, profits go down (assuming the value received
remains the same).

> On the other hand if your information is closely guarded then it
> costs a lot more to get that information.

Exactly. The idea is to make it cost more to get the information than
the information is worth.
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