From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 02:02:08 +0800
To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Ethical programming guild? [/.]
Message-ID: <199812041731.LAA24617@einstein.ssz.com>
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> X-within-URL: http://slashdot.org/features/98/12/04/1158251.shtml

>    The following was written by Slashdot Reader James Moyer .
>    
>    In proposing this idea, I think that it would a little bit of
>    background would be appropriate. I am a student at Ohio State, and I
>    have a strong interest in civil liberties and privacy issues. In fact,
>    I am now in the process of organizing an on-campus student
>    organization to criticize Ohio State's overuse of the social security
>    number, biometric identification and other related issues to privacy
>    directly concerning the university.
>    
>    Here on Slashdot I use the nickname JimBobJoe posting from email
>    address vampire@innocent.com.
>    
>    I also consider myself a Libertarian, and from many of the postings on
>    Slashdot, it appears that there are quite a lot of Libertarians out
>    there too. There is no coincidence, in my mind, that some of the most
>    stringent privacy laws in the nation hail from a highly technical,
>    Libertarian state, being Washington state. In the same vein, it is
>    rather amusing to see countries such as Malaysia attempt to draw
>    computer professions into their country, where the severity of their
>    laws turn many away.

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