RE: [fw-wiz] The home user problem returns

From: Paul Melson (pmelson_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/12/05

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    To: "'Marcus J. Ranum'" <mjr@ranum.com>, "'Mason Schmitt'" <mason@schmitt.ca>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:22:26 -0400

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    Subject: RE: [fw-wiz] The home user problem returns

    > No, no, no.... Privacy, anonymity, and digital rights management are all
    inextricably
    > entertwined parts of the same problem, but they don't necessarily equate
    or conflict.

    I guess I object to my privacy being rebadged as 'anonymity' and therefore a
    problem. I'm not anonymous, and neither is anybody else on the Internet,
    despite some claims to the contrary (remember, they raided anon.penet.fi).
    I'm just unknown to you because your vantage point is incomplete.

    > ("DRM?" you ask...
    > As Dan Geer likes to point out, privacy technologies ideally let the owner
    of a piece
    > of information control its disclosure, copying, duration of disclosure,
    and
    > frequency/count of disclosure. That's also the laundry list for an ideal
    digital
    > rights management system.)

    Unfortunately, that ship has sailed. American consumerism trumped American
    liberty and privacy in that arena years ago. We'll be lucky to have the
    ability to find out what personal information of ours is being stored and
    traded by the organizations that have it, let alone have the power to take
    it away from them. Sadly, I am confident that if it does happen, it will be
    as a reaction to a major info-disaster that has serious negative fall-out
    for a large portion of American citizens.

    PaulM

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