From: minow@apple.com (Martin Minow) Subject: Re: Notes from the SF Physical Cypherpunks meeting [...] The Swedish government has a rather strong tradition of protection of individual privacy (encrypting COM e-mail is one example). [...] Martin Minow minow@apple.com

Huh? 'a rather strong tradition of protection of individual privacy'? In Sweden, for many years you could (and for all I know, still) go to a public records office and look up all kinds of personal data on anyone, without restriction - you could, for example, find out your co-workers exact salaries if you were curious. My understanding is that Sweden's postion vis-a-vis the Internet has been particularly clueless, with international email technically a crime, and government officials who regard modems as criminal tools. I hope things have improved. Peter Trei (former resident alien in Sweden) ptrei@acm.org