From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Sun Dec 03 2000 - 11:11:13 MST
You can't be talking to me. The "you" is meant rhetorically, to the
group at large, right?
Zero Powers wrote:
> So, on the one hand you say you are an Extropian hoping one day to become
> Uberman. On the other hand you want to put up impenetrable road blocks on
> the information super-highway. Look in the mirror. What do you call
> yourself?
>
> -Zero
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael M. Butler" <butler@comp-lib.org>
> Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 2:28 AM
>
> > "Temporarily". You said it, not me. Face and behavior-noticing neural
> > nets will be cheap enough to peel off and stick like Britney stickers
> > someday, probably sooner than we'd like. So gross location and activity
> > monitoring is basically a given. This has a big impact on what a lot of
> > average people would construe as "privacy".
> >
> > Cryptocurrency, Mixmaster, etc. are well and good, but as I think Bruce
> > Schneier likes to put it, some approaches to security are like putting a
> > single fence picket a mile high in the ground and hoping all your
> > adversaries run into it and knock themselves unconscious.
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