-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- While grudgingly accepting the larger message of your posting, I qualify this with the following observation: Eric Hughes, 1994 May 30:
As soon as an issue [such as privacy] becomes a partisan issue, you've lost, because at least half the people are against it.
Eric Hughes, in the cypherpunks welcome message:
Cypherpunks acknowledge that those who want privacy must create it for themselves and not expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant them privacy out of beneficence.
Egregious among the ``large, faceless organizations'' is the tyranny erected by the majority, ``at least half the people'', called democratic political government. My interpretation of the welcome message has always been that a cypherpunk works to create his own privacy _in spite of_ interference by ``at least half the people'', acknowledging that these people are not to be expected to grant that privacy on their own. I do not concede that half the people being against privacy means that I've lost. I seek to apply what I learn through cypherpunks to create my privacy even without their approval. John E. Kreznar | Relations among people to be by jkreznar@ininx.com | mutual consent, or not at all. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLepjFcDhz44ugybJAQHrWgQA2ix+775G0eIiQXsXgDjU71Cu+m1xOPnA a5QkYS5J1GTSlVHuD1MKRS/mfa++Kf6U5h2wvpOeLqHVnE2aBta8llTKBPxMQjym 9/1yMNxdtdXbac9FeARKG5UGdLMglNudwrVWdrdfzham6xd0n0tLFVn6IE0OStg7 aGX0DHrdW9g= =ATx7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----