We are not extremists. There is nothing extreme about believing that an email you send to your spouse or your friend ought to be private, or that people ought to be able to read and write about whatever subject interests them. The extremists are those who are fighting so hard to preserve the possibility of totalitarianism.
In that sense, many cypherpunks are not extremists, but in another sense, many (most?) cypherpunks are. They seem to believe that in the Intenet, slander is acceptable behavior and that anonymity should be used as an escape from responsibility for what they do and say. If you want to remain free to speak your mind, you have to become responsible in at least two ways: 1 - You must top slandering people. 2 - You must stop using anonymity as a way to avoid being responsible. When I say must, I am not intending to mean anything less. If the cypherpunks continue to do these two things, they will rapidly find that they are doing more to destroy all of our rights to free speech in the Internet than they ever did to encourage freedom of expression. -> See: Info-Sec Heaven at URL http://all.net/ Management Analytics - 216-686-0090 - PO Box 1480, Hudson, OH 44236