Wired on e-gold

[Steve Schear]

At 01:30 AM 12/19/2001 +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote:

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>Criminals love privacy, they love anonymity.  Remailer operators soon find
>that a substantial majority of the messages they send contain nothing
>but harrassment and threats.  Few customers use anonymity services
>for positive purposes, to protect their privacy while engaging in
>legitimate activities.  With most people, if they have nothing to hide,
>they don't hide it.  Only paranoids and extremists will adopt anonymity
>technologies without nefarious purposes in mind.  Anyone proposing to
>offer new services for privacy and anonymity should be prepared to deal
>with the onslaught of criminals who will use the system for bad ends.

One would assume then that most governments are paranoids, extremists and 
criminals since the use of privacy/secrecy and even anonymity technologies 
are stock and trade in some of their agencies.

steve