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To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (45153)	5/23/2000 8:00:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Respond to of 74651

Privacy and security are separate issues. It looks to me like the comments from your posting allude to McNealy's comments having to do with personal privacy, not with security. Privacy is a great concern wrt internet commerce. It is an issue that has to undergo a national debate. As you are well aware, privacy protection vs. someone else's right to know are debated daily and would exist even if there were no internet. Everyone in the nation has or should have an opinion about how much privacy is enough and where to draw the line. IMHO there should be a national referendum on this topic to determine what, if any policy or law should be put into effect. That issue, however, has absolutely nothing to do with secure transactions over the internet, or the break-ins to individual PC owner's that threatens what could be valuable assets on the PC.