[Ir-l] [IR-L]: Re: RIP and PGP

[CYoung1097 at aol.com]

In a message dated 26/04/00 17:34:50 GMT Daylight Time, mobbsey at gn.apc.org 
writes:

> Privacy for privacy's sake is a vaccuous argument. Privacy needs purpose.


What rubbish.
That sort of nonsense is just what an oppressive establishment likes to hear.

I believe I have a RIGHT to privacy.
I believe I have a RIGHT to communicate with whomsover I please, in privacy.
I do NOT need to justify using  an electronic "envelope" around my emails.

If they can't "steam open" my electronic envelopes, that's not my fault,  but 
once I've sent my mesages,  I can't open them either, as I shall explain.

I intend to continue to use PGP on every possible occasion,  and if "they" 
try to make me decrypt messages I have sent (mostly overseas) then they are 
on a bunch of plums,  because I do NOT retain plain text copies of any of 
them, and as I do NOT also use my own public key to ENcrypt messages,  it is 
IMPOSSIBLE for me to decrypt them.  So they can send me to jail.  I hope it 
makes them happy.

One wonders at the mentality of those  who do this sort of work for their pay.
They are the very worst of society's detritus.  Social misfits,  and probably 
clinically psychopathic -

Psychopath - a person afflicted with a personality disorder characterised by 
by a tendency to commit anti-social and sometimes violent acts, and a failure 
to feel guilt for such acts.

Few of us would have much trouble associating that definition with much of 
the activities the personnel of the forces of law and order use routinely 
these days.

Charles Young
Scotland  UK

CYoung1097 at aol.com