At 02:14 PM 1/25/96 -0800, Rich Graves wrote:

I believe that the choice not to read other people's personal mail is an ethical imperative, since we do not have and probably can not have total privacy enforced by technology and law alone. Sure, strong crypto helps, and should be spread, but there will always be back doors and implementation bugs, and in the worst case, most people will give in to moderate torture.

It's hard to say what the ethical role of individuals in the government (or Jim Bell's "assassination politics" organization, which quacks like a government for me) is.

Needless to say, I disagree. If you define government as, "That entity which keeps me from doing bad things to people," then a S+W model 629 .44 caliber revolver "quacks like a government to you." If the reason you don't do bad things in public because people will sneer at you and criticize, then sneering and criticizing "quacks like a government to you." What "Assassination Politics" does is to eliminate the ability of 51% of the population to control the remaining 49%. If there is any residual pro-government bias left in this system, tell me and I will work strongly to root it out.