Denning vs. Gilmore

[Marshall Clow]

>Today, Monday, July 29, Dorothy Denning begins her debate vs. John Gilmore
>over The Absolute Right to Privacy on Wired Online's Brain Tennis site. Do
>citizens of the world have an "unalienable right" to privacy - or are there
>reasons why governments ought to have access to our communications? This
>debate will run daily through August 7. Follow along at
>http://www.wired.com/braintennis/
>
I especially like Dr. Denning's quote:

>An encrypted global information infrastructure is without precedent in
>world history. It allows individuals and groups, anywhere and any time,
>to communicate securely and with total privacy across time and space.

Now _there_ is a goal to shoot for!


Minor comments:

First, a historical question:
	What percentage of telegraph traffic was encrypted in the 1910s?

A global information infrastructure (encrypted or not) is without precedent in world history, is it not?

I noticed that she said "allows", not "would allow". That contradicts
<<I'm not ready to accept "the cat is out of the bag.">>, doesn't it?

-- Marshall

Marshall Clow     Aladdin Systems   <mailto:mclow at mailhost2.csusm.edu>

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