No Privacy Right in UK ?
Perry E. Metzger
perry at piermont.com
Fri Nov 17 16:04:51 PST 1995
"James M. Cobb" writes:
> Thanks for your inquiry. The post "No Privacy Right in UK ?"
> is closely related to cryptography in at least three ways.
Actually, I was being rhetorical. It was an inappropriate posting.
> Cryptography is a means to accomplish an end: privacy.
Thats true, but it isn't a means to keep private investigators from
noticing that insurance cheats are perfectly healthy when they claim
to be horribly incapacitiated, which was what the article was about.
> Farther, the case discussed in the post was a prosaic example
> of invasion of privacy by deception.
Actually, it was a prosaic example of the lengths to which human
stupidity is taken in our court systems. I'm reminded of the rule that
says you can't put a boobytrap in your home -- after all, a person
breaking and entering could injure themselves with it.
It has nothing to do with cryptography, though.
> Further, Clinton attended an elite university in the UK. Can you
> imagine what notions he may have found attractive there?
So what. Nothing to do with cryptography.
Take this elsewhere, I say.
Perry
More information about the cypherpunks-legacy
mailing list