From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Dec 16 2002 - 12:31:25 MST
--- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> wrote:>
> I don't deny that there are very good historical reasons for valuing
> privacy, most notably powerful, intrusive, and repressive
> governments.
> And we certainly haven't solved all of those problems even today.
> But looking forward into the technological future it's important that
> we fix the real problems and not just carry along our old band-aids.
THe problem with this approach is that it smacks of the same sort of
Pollyannish ignorance of human nature and social inertia that often is
the achilles heel of collectivists.
Accepting that there are lions, tigers, and bears out there in the
woods of life, and that privacy is one defensive measure against their
ravages that works well would tend to dismiss arguments for
transparency. Predators don't generally care as much about getting
caught as they do in making the kill, so transparency is the same sort
of false security that one gets from thinking that it is the job of
police to protect you.
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