Re: Privacy, Property, Cryptography (long)

Mike Godwin <mnemonic@eff.org> said:

This quotation needs to be debugged a little bit. The actual quotation [...] as against the government, the right to be let alone--the most [...] (Note in particular that it's "let," not "left.")

It's always nice to get quotations down correctly, but surely the original "let" translates in today's speech to "left"? If not, I'd like to hear about the difference. Doug