On Sun, 17 Nov 1996 paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk wrote:
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 15:01:52 +0000 From: paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk To: aga <aga@dhp.com> Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: [REBUTTAL] Censorship on cypherpunks?, from The Netly N
If you do not send it to me by e-mail, I will never see it. Why are you so paranoid that someone is reading your e-mail? I never do anything criminal, so I could give a shit less if everybody reads all of my fucking mail.
I was trying hard not to get into this thread as it is basically just one long flamewar that is getting out of control but I have to comment here:
There need be no reason for paranoia. I don`t call it paranoia, I call it constant vigilance, to demonize it is a statist position and tries to ostricise those who protect their privacy.
Whether you do anything criminal or not is not the point. Indeed I would say that 90-95% of encryption usage is for perfectly legal purposes, and only about 0.1% of encrypted material is concerned with unethical acts rather than illegal acts. The point is you should retain the right to protect your privacy. Sure, it`s not illegal to put forward anarchist arguments in mail today, but do you really want your company boss knowing about it?
get an anonymous account if you want to do that.
I personally don`t work - I`m a student so it doesn`t matter to me, but whether it is right that your employement and political views should affect each other they do, so you should be able to protect yourself with technology...
As I said dude; I no longer respond to any como with the cypherpunks address in the header. If you want an answer to your comments, address your reply to the Freedom-knights list or to me, without any *punks address in the header. Any list run by an admitted Faggot is no place where I will allow an audience. This is not a reply to your comments. -aga
Datacomms Technologies web authoring and data security Paul Bradley, Paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk Paul@crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul@cryptography.uk.eu.org Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/ Email for PGP public key, ID: 5BBFAEB1 "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"