hi Tim and all: Been lurking on this list for about a month and find it really interesting. I'm still working my way through the FAQ from the talk.politics.crypto newsgroup to get up to speed, but have been using PGP for about six months now. I've been toying with starting an anon-remailer as well....that Quickremail program looks cool...anyone install and run it yet? I think Tim's post relates to the idea that we're living in a society that finds it acceptable to monitor our movement of all sorts. Not just physical, but --for lack of a better word-- virtual as well. By that I mean, organizations both large and small have the means to track our purchases and activities --generally, any activity that is logged or leaves a data/paper trail says something about us and creates a virtual persona-- and using such info. to make inferrences about our lifestyles. Just the other day I had a heated talk with someone about drug tests in the workplace. She said they're fine. Frankly, I am against them. Take your jar and shove it. "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" implies a right to privacy. That's why I started using PGP and want to make an effort to keep up on topics related to keeping my life private and shielded from those who would like otherwise. What will employers want to know next? What movies I rent? What books and magazines I read? What else do I do on my freetime that may or may not be "unacceptable"? I worry that our personal lives are becoming more and more regulated by government, regulation that allows employers and other institutions to rationalize their privacy-invading actions and that's why I too find Clinton's push for a state-instituted curfew disturbing as well. What next? Will my employer start telling me I have to be home by 11 p.m. so I can be a happier, more productive worker? -B At 07:08 PM 5/31/96 -0700, you wrote:
As I said, should such curfews become widespread, children will of course need forms of age identification, and this opens yet another door for universal I.D. cards. And for "travel papers."
Maybe it would be easier to just put a tattoo on their arms--especially as the younger generation is so into tattoos these days. "Pappieren, bitte. Macht schnell!"
===================================================== Brendon Macaraeg http://www.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~brendonm Finger macaragb@acf2.nyu.edu for my PGP Public Key