At 01:30 AM 12/19/2001 +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote: ><snip> > >Criminals love privacy, they love anonymity. Remailer operators soon find >that a substantial majority of the messages they send contain nothing >but harrassment and threats. Few customers use anonymity services >for positive purposes, to protect their privacy while engaging in >legitimate activities. With most people, if they have nothing to hide, >they don't hide it. Only paranoids and extremists will adopt anonymity >technologies without nefarious purposes in mind. Anyone proposing to >offer new services for privacy and anonymity should be prepared to deal >with the onslaught of criminals who will use the system for bad ends.
One would assume then that most governments are paranoids, extremists and criminals since the use of privacy/secrecy and even anonymity technologies are stock and trade in some of their agencies. steve
