From: Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 11:37:09 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Fairness, Justice, and Cypherpunks
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                       SANDY SANDFORT
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C'punks,

At 01:55 PM 5/28/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote a thoughtful
disquisition on privacy laws and concluded:

>Cypherpunks should not, in my strong belief, support "data 
>fairness laws" or "anti-gossip laws."

To which I would add:  Cypherpunks has never been about laws
at all, except in the subversive sense.  It has been the oft
stated goal of Cypherpunks to protect privacy through the 
use of techonology, *irrespective* of what laws say.

Cypherpunks who don't want powerful corporations to invade
their privacy should be working on better privacy technology
instead of trying to dance with the devil.


 S a n d y

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