-- On 1 Oct 2004 at 10:32, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
First Data has been terminating all of its contracts with adult entertainment providers as they expire, a spokeswoman said.
Way back at the beginning, cypherpunks said that the internet could result in alarming loss of privacy, or alarming improvement in privacy. As events turned out, it went to alarming loss of privacy, as Bill Gates, Oliver North and the porn sites have discovered. The problem is not irreversible. If Oliver North had consulted a ten year old, the kid probably would have told him how to make sure his emails were really deleted. I would have thought that the anti-trust debacle would have inspired Bill Gates to give higher priority to privacy preserving software. Now that we finally see potential threats becoming real, perhaps people will, eventually, belatedly, start covering themselves from these threats. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG OLPBj3P5+a0AMi3yjd+CWMKIt31RADZCuotKF/Ih 4pWB1qcPC2GT4Gah22MCAlXN4mbYb7039CZzAK4UZ