
Black Unicorn wrote:
On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Sandy Sandfort wrote:
The problem with having a whole lot of private information about you floating around in public is not what damage it can do to you now, but rather the problems it potentially could cause in the future. Just about everyone on this list has been to university. Not long ago, a college education was essentially a death warrant in Cambodia....
Oh, come on. That could never happen here.
[Where is "here" for every list member?] Not bloody likely, no, but Mr. Kasczynski or the Symbionese Liberation Army could take a disliking to you for similar reasons. And you never know where you might travel. I've got a journalist friend who's paranoid about appearing at any political event because she's afraid she won't be allowed back into China or Southeast Asia if it comes out that she gives a damn about human rights. A seasonal haiku, original author unknown: Open your present No, you open your present Kasczynski Christmas -rich