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To: J. Kittle who wrote (26585)4/12/1999 11:50:00 PM
From: Scott C. Lemon  Read Replies (2) of 42771
 
Hello J,

> I live in a town or about 6,000 and the girls at the post office
> know what mutual funds I own, what banks I use, what credit cards I
> have, what clubs and organizations I belong to and support, my
> hobbies and all three of my addresses.

{and even more examples and prose deleted}

I wanted to comment on your post ... this is a very good observation, and reinforces my perspective that privacy and security only occur within a certain scope or range.

I believe that the range of privacy is only within a "community" or a "crowd" of people. Unless you choose to be a complete loner and isolate yourself from society.

The writer of the Melissa virus was caught because the "community" that he operated through decided to give him up! If AOL had not agreed to help the authorities, it might have been impossible to catch him.

This is very similar to the current extradition of the two Libyans(?) who were sent to the Netherlands. Libya decided not to help the authorities, and so sanctions were imposed ... and when the "community" finally wanted the sanctions lifted, they decided to comply ... and they gave up their own.

This same model will exist in cyberspace ... with a wide range of communities of people with different morals and values. You will "exist" or "live" in the virtual communities that you trust, just as you currently live in a community which deals with your privacy in a way that you tolerate.

We'll have to live with the fact that some virtual communities will accept and allow things that other communities won't ... but then we'll move to another community ... just like the real world!

So if we build the technology to provide for this ... ;-)

Scott C. Lemon
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