Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!news!dfl From: dfl@aeolus.dev.think.com (David Lively) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: The end of privacy... and so what comes next? Message-ID: Date: 2 Apr 91 15:38:18 GMT References: <63473@bbn.BBN.COM> <1991Apr2.074250.7456@milton.u.washington.edu> Sender: news@Think.COM Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu's message of Tue, 2 Apr 1991 07:42:50 GMT In article <1991Apr2.074250.7456@milton.u.washington.edu> cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) writes: /Bernie\ may like being a data clone. Some of us treasure our individuality and hope that it will not be snuffed by large institutions equipped with technology to suck up everything there is to know about us, institutions encouraged by the passivity and surrender of the Bernie's among us. No /Bernie\ doesn't like being a data clone - read his posting more carefully - he's playing the devil's advocate by stating the case against privacy. This doesn't mean we shouldn't respond to his points - but don't attribute those viewpoints to Bernie. (This isn't meant to be directed solely at you, Bob. A lot of people seem to have gotten the wrong impression. I've seen enough other posts from Bernie to know better.) David