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From: ryan@ra.cs.umb.edu (Daniel R. Guilderson)
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Subject: Re: Privacy and punishment (was: E-mail Privacy)
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The panopticon sounds good on paper but in the real world it would not
have the desired effect of prisoners policing themselves.  I say this
because there will always be a few risk takers who will be willing to
test whether or not they are being watched.  From my own experience I
know that I would be one of them.  I like to do stuff like speed past
known speedtraps just for the hell of it.  If I do it often enough and
I don't get caught, I figure it is no longer being used as a speedtrap.