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Subject: Honesty is not stupidity - Wed, 24 Jan 1996 10:44:57 -0500
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 10:44:57 -0500
From: Alan Pogrebinschi <alanpog@ax.apc.org>
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Subject: Honesty is not stupidity
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Jim Martin wrote:
>
> So I'm not interested in encoding my messages with PGP encryption.
I'd like OML
> to be open and non-hierarchical. If I want privacy, I'll take a walk
in the
> woods. These truths are for everyone, even my enemies.
>
I agree. I think I was misunderstood. The privacy concern is not about
the list. It, and all
articles should be as public as possible. Anyway it would be impossible
to check each reader's
integrity before giving him/her the list's keys. No, that's not my point.
Because of my passion for new technologies (like public crypt.), I have
probably antecipated a
problem that still doesn't exist. Privacy is needed for person-to-person
interaction on specific
matters.
If we agree that the government abuses its power to interfere with the
freedom of individuals,
and sometimes is violent about that (Reich can tell), than its not out
of a childish need to
"hide who we are" that we would want to talk privately sometimes,
its just our survival drive.
We have to incurr the risk to say the truth, if the situation is worth.
But simply to ignore the
reality and expose yourself for little or nothing is stupid. That's the
use of privacy.
Let's say Reich had internet on the 50's. If he was to use email to communicate
his first
hypotesis on a certain cloudbuster or cancer experiment, only the first
speculations, to his
collegues around the globe he would have to use Crypto. The FBI was watching
him, they could use speculations, far from being conclusions, as diffamatory
material and as tools to prevent further
search. When the conclusions (I don't mean we can get real *final* conclusions,
but there's a
point when we know they are ready to be published) are ready, publish on
the Journal or make it a
book, give a lecture.
I hope to have clarified my point and shown that privacy is needed in very
limited and specific
situations, but needed if we want to be honest tomorrow also.
Alan Pogrebinschi
PS: It's great to be so quickly and intelligently opposed on an idea. I
really like to learn in
such an atmosphere.
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