Wired on e-gold

[Petro]

On Tuesday, December 18, 2001, at 06:02 PM, Steve Schear wrote:

> At 01:30 AM 12/19/2001 +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote:
>
>> <snip>
>>
>> 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.

	Yes, one would assume that.

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