Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!NOTE.NSF.GOV!fbaube From: fbaube@NOTE.NSF.GOV ("F.Baube") Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Subject: Big Brother Message-ID: <8901111239.aa03561@note.nsf.gov> Date: 11 Jan 89 17:38:50 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 14 Lest JD's attempt to get the discussion back on the track go completely unrecognized .. As Americans (as most of the people on this list are, I assume) we should *assume* as a philosophical exercise that the govern- ment and other network controllers will abuse their responsibi- lities, if not now then in the future. How about a discussion of grass-roots efforts to implement end-to-end communications security for private citizens ? I've heard of a project called "LiberTech" that was marketing a cheap public-key system; are there any other notable efforts going on anywhere ? #include