From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 12:21:50 +0800
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Re: PGP, Inc.--What were they thinking? (fwd)
Message-ID: <199710230436.XAA17097@einstein.ssz.com>
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> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 19:57:59 -0600
> From: TruthMonger <tm@dev.null>
> Subject: Re: PGP, Inc.--What were they thinking?

>   *Starts* eavesdropping? Where you been, Bubba?
>   When a Company has the 'right' to wiretap you, search you, and make
> you piss in a jar, as well as having their own armed forces monitoring
> you and patrolling your workplace, the main difference between them
> and the government is that the corporation usually doesn't pretend
> to allow you to vote.

This is plain and simple bullshit. There are a variety of differences
between a government and what they can do by general charter in a democracy
and a company which operates on specific contracts.

> TruthMonger

ParanoiaMonger is more like it.



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