From: paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 08:50:24 -0800 (PST)
To: aga <aga@dhp.com>
Subject: Re: [REBUTTAL] Censorship on cypherpunks?, from The Netly N
Message-ID: <848332398.56610.0@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
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> If you do not send it to me by e-mail, I will never see it.
> Why are you so paranoid that someone is reading your e-mail?
> I never do anything criminal, so I could give a shit less if
> everybody reads all of my fucking mail.

I was trying hard not to get into this thread as it is basically just 
one long flamewar that is getting out of control but I have to 
comment here:

There need be no reason for paranoia. I don`t call it paranoia, I 
call it constant vigilance, to demonize it is a statist position and 
tries to ostricise those who protect their privacy. 

Whether you do anything criminal or not is not the point. Indeed I 
would say that 90-95% of encryption usage is for perfectly legal 
purposes, and only about 0.1% of encrypted material is concerned with 
unethical acts rather than illegal acts. The point is you should 
retain the right to protect your privacy. 
Sure, it`s not illegal to  put forward anarchist arguments in mail today, 
but do you really want your company boss knowing about it? 
 I personally don`t work - I`m a student so it doesn`t matter to me, 
but whether it is right that your employement and political views should 
affect each other they do, so you should be able to protect yourself 
with technology...




 

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