Crypto Anarchy/Libertarians in WSJ
On Fri, 20 Jan 1995 frissell@panix.com (Duncan Frissell) said: Duncan aptly points to the WSJ article, lots of c'punk topics mentioned. For email copy send blank message with subject: LIB_yep Meanwhile, here's a taste: Mr. Willis says the libertarian concept has particular appeal to people in the computer industry. "We have more members in one computer company in Seattle than in some whole counties, and that company is Microsoft," he says. Indeed, when Mr. Frezza, the Philadelphia computer consultant, last month launched a computer network of like- minded thinkers called DigitaLiberty, he was so overwhelmed with responses, especially from college students, that he had to temporarily shut down the group's electronic mailbox. One member of DigitaLiberty is Bruce Fancher, a 23-year-old who in the late 1980s earned brief notoriety as a hacker who broke into computer systems, though he was never charged with a crime. He is president of a computer communications company called Phantom Access Technologies Inc. "Being involved in computers or the Internet, you inevitably move toward being a libertarian," he says. "It is basically possible to keep all of your secrets from prying eyes, particularly the prying eyes of the federal government."
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John Young