At 7:38 PM 4/30/96, angels@wavenet.com (CyberAngels Director : Colin Gabriel Hatche wrote:
My concern is not so much with network sabotage or infiltration (there are plenty enough organizations addressing that problem) but with personal safety within the Internet community - that means you, not your hard drive.
This is a totally facetious point. I am fully capable of protecting myself and my family from ANY threat posed by a single individual over the internet (and from most threats posed in person as well). There is no "personal safety" issue. This is fantasy. When someone dies from an email message, come back and talk to me about security. Until then, the biggest threat to my security on the internet comes from groups such as yours and from the government. In attempting to limit access to anonymous remailers and cryptography, you are attempting to limit my ability to protect myself, while substituting dubious governmental protection. I say dubious, because in the real world, there will always be those who break the law (if cryptography is outlawed...). You do have one point I agree with:
Freedom of speech cannot function without law.
This is absolutely correct. There must be a law to protect the freedom of speech, and we have that law, it is called the 1st amendment to the Constitution. I saw a .sig the other day that said "What part of 'Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech' do you not understand" (unfortunately I don't remeber whose .sig it was). The self anointed internet censors often try to muck up the basic issue of free speech with the "evil" pornographers and bombmakers theme in an attempt at convincing the public to give up freedom for illusory security. You fall in that net.censor category, in that you are attempting to restrict freedom. Although you may actually believe in what you are doing, you are wrong. Fortunately, I still have the right to disagree strongly. Clay --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clay Olbon II | Clay.Olbon@dynetics.com Systems Engineer | ph: (810) 589-9930 fax 9934 Dynetics, Inc., Ste 302 | http://www.msen.com/~olbon/olbon.html 550 Stephenson Hwy | PGP262 public key: on web page Troy, MI 48083-1109 | pgp print: B97397AD50233C77523FD058BD1BB7C0 TANSTAAFL ---------------------------------------------------------------------------