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From: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net> Subject: RE: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the Foregone Alternative Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 14:29:47 -0800
Petro wrote:
However, Privacy + Freedom == Anarchy, or close enough to be indistinguishable.
This is silly.
for privacy. In fact there is good claim that privacy will not exist in anarchy except by those that decide to use the tools and methods to achieve it -- cat and mouse game same as today, except the corporate cats are bound by economics (the value of data to them versus the cost to obtain it) whereas government cats are not.
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