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- Date: Sun, 12 Sep 93 00:54:18 PDT
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Some comments on the relationship between anarchy and
privacy:
1. There have been some recent posts suggesting that
privacy is not fundamentally subversive of
government, and that cypherpunks should emphasize
the privacy and keep quite about the anarchy. I
find these arguments disingenuous in the extreme,
and strategically unsound as well.
2. Cypherpunks believe that privacy is fundamentally
subversive. Come on, folks, whom do you want
privacy FROM, if not your own government?
Otherwise there's no logical objection to the
key-escrow, trust-big-brother schemes.
3. The government has shown by its behavior that it
believes that privacy is fundamentally subversive.
4. I personally find privacy, in itself, only mildly
interesting. As a tool to undermine the government,
I find it VERY EXCITING INDEED.
5. Cypherpunks' mission is to evangelize the use of
privacy. Sell the sizzle, not the steak! Privacy
is the steak. The sizzle is the possibility of
GETTING AWAY WITH SOMETHING.