From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 12 2000 - 18:16:48 MDT
Transparency works with IP, not against it. Yes, you can watch David
Brin write his next novel as it's being written. But the police can
see you performing an illegal observation, and arrest you for watching
him.
If it ever makes it off the blackboard, the government can and will
outlaw the use of transparency technology for the rest of us, on the
grounds of "privacy protection." They'll be able to prevent us from
watching the government by reserving the right to use transparency
technology for itself. We'll be able to watch them do it, if we
decide to break the law, but they'll be able to see us doing it as
well, and they'll have the guns and the laws to put us in jail for
doing so.
They'll also have the access to the necessary processing power to
identify law-breaking as it happens; or, at least, they'll have a hell
of a lot more access to it than the rest of us will have when the
government outlaws our use of it.
Transparency technology of all kinds makes law enforcement much much
easier; never harder.
-Dan
-unless you love someone-
-nothing else makes any sense-
e.e. cummings
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