At 6:20 AM +0200 10/23/00, Nomen Nescio wrote:

[Fwd]

For anyone in the SF Bay Area who is even mildly interested in the privacy discussion, I highly recommend that you attend a public affairs-style discussion on Internet privacy to be held at The Commonwealth Club on Thursday, October 26, from 5:15 -- 7:15pm.

The discussion will be moderated by John Markoff of The New York Times. Panelists include: Bob Lewin, President and CEO of TRUSTe; Marc Rotenberg, Exec. Dir. of EPIC; FTC Commissioner Mozelle Thompson; and Chris Kelly, Chief Privacy Officer for Excite@Home.

Together, the panel represents the five points that are driving the privacy discussion: the media, self-regulation, government, industry, and advocacy. Let's see if they can agree on anything.

Funny how these same names keep cropping up in all sorts of talks and road shows. As for the "five points," I certainly don't see any representation from the broad contingent (users of PGP, Napster users, punks, students, anarchists,...) who basically say "Fuck it, I'll do what I want!" In any case, having attended several of the various crypto, Clipper, privacy, and net regulation panel discussions over the years, I know them to be a waste of time. --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.