Freedom and security
Perry E. Metzger
perry at piermont.com
Wed May 1 01:08:49 PDT 1996
CyberAngels Director : Colin Gabriel Hatcher writes:
> Mike McNally wrote
>
> >What exactly do you consider "security" and "freedom" to mean here? Whose
> >security? Whose freedom?
>
> Every society has a social contract
Could you show me a copy? Everyone keeps telling me about this
contract, but I can't for the life of me remember signing it.
> You may demand the freedom to kill those who disagree with
> you but no community will grant you that freedom.
I see you've never heard of the Argentine armed forces.
> I am not currently aware that either your right to encrypt nor your right
> to use anon remailers is under threat, so why should I do anything? But
> while encryption and anon remailing protect *you* from certain threats to
> your freedom, they are also being used for example to make the
> international trade in child pornography more effective and less easy to
> prosecute.
You start by talking about the social contract and how no one agrees
that you should be able to kill people, and then you move straight on
to child pornography.
I find that interesting.
Perry
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