From: jamiel@sybase.com (Jamie Lawrence)
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 94 11:40:43 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: What motivates crypto-folk?
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At  1:28 PM 07/01/94 +0200, Mats Bergstrom wrote:

>anarchy. And I don't think any ultra left-wingers are lurking on
>cypherpunks. That epithet should be saved for people believing in

Depends on what you call ultra-left. You have a very serious socialist
here... I don't advertise it much becuase too many libertarian
types spam me trying to tell me why I'm wrong. Maybe I am the only
one that gets tired of those arguments...

[tame but promising aproach to social welfare deleted]

>But such a pinko-green approach to privacy does not, and should
>not in my humble opinion, have to extend to public funding of
>education, libraries, minorities, arts, infobahns or other soft
>issues. And it gives no one a right to pry into my software
>collection or drug cabinet.

Well, you were doing well for a while...:) And this pinko agrees
110% with the last statement.

My own personal opinion is that waiting for governments to collapse
due to crypto and tech is gonna have you waiting a long, long time.
I prefer doing something with the tools at hand to dreaming. And the
government isn't all bad, as is; just mostly bad. Heck, let me be
so optimistic as to say maybe even fixable, at least to what I want
to see.

>Mats Bergstrom

Jamie "Is a Mayist Like a Janist?" Lawrence

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Jamie Lawrence                                  <jamiel@sybase.com>