RE: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the Foregone Alternative

[Petro <petro@playboy.com>]

At 5:31 PM -0500 11/2/98, Matthew James Gering wrote:
>> paradox of financial cryptography, and, more specifically,
>> digital bearer settlement, is not that it gives you privacy
>> and freedom (anarchy? :-))
>
>Anarchy != privacy

	However, Privacy + Freedom == Anarchy, or close enough to be
indistinguishable.

>In fact to many people privacy is a very statist construct, as they clamor
>for more privacy regulations by government.

	No, to many people, the Government is a magical device that can
repeal the laws of physics, and change peoples hearts. They don't think
that government can *create* privacy, they think it is willing or able to
*enforce* it.

	Then again, there is little enough evidence of thougt amoung "many
people".
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