From: m5@vail.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 93 05:57:28 PDT
To: owen@autodesk.com (D. Owen Rowley)
Subject: Re: your mail Re: on anonymity, identity, reputation, and spoofing
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D. Owen Rowley writes:
 > Personally I think that accountability is going to be required as the
 > price for reasonably secure encryption, reasonably open access, and
 > reasonably secure privacy of data.  IMNSHO, it is unreasonable to
 > expect an anarcho-libertarian outcome to these issues. If you can
 > prove me wrong I will be thrilled.

By whom is accountability going to be required?  How will it (or how
can it) be implemented?  What sort of mechanisms can be expected to
reliably and universally evolve in the decentralized anarchic network
we know today that will make "paying the price" a meaningful concept?

I con't prove you wrong because I cannot understand what you predict.

 > It seems to me that multimedia extensions have an *unfolding of the lotus*
 > like effect upon the issues involved.

Explain: is it because of the medium itself or because of the nature
of information that'll be available with multimedia delivery systems?

 > I also see very little regarding potential for breaking the mind machine
 > link, or biologic interfaces?

Uhhhh, OK.

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Mike McNally