On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Duncan Frissell wrote:
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 06:31:07 -0500 From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com> To: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>, Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com> Cc: Huge Cajones Remailer <nobody@huge.cajones.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: The Utility of Privacy
At 06:54 PM 11/18/96 -0500, Black Unicorn wrote:
Not long ago, a college education was essentially a death warrant in Cambodia. Prior to that, a degree was considered a good thing there. People saw no reason to hid the fact that they had been in school. Trouble is, things changed.
Oh, come on. That could never happen here.
Where have I heard that line before? Sandy was giving an actual example of a general problem. Educated people were executed in Cambodia. That may not happen here but it is very common for innocent legal activities or characteristics to later become very illegal and subject to punishment.
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