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Date: Thu, Mar 11, 1993 (00:46)
From: Glenn S. Tenney <tenney@well.sf.ca.us>
Subject: File 3--Computer Freedom and Privacy III Conf. (Report 2)
The keynote today (Nicholas Johnson) was fantastic! I may not have
agreed with him 100%, but his talk was just wonderful. Don't ask
me
to repeat it or even paraphrase it, I decided that I was probably
going to buy a tape of it and didn't take notes.
The electronic democracy session had, for me, an interesting note:
Sarah Gray from We The People (ran Jerry Brown's computer stuff)
said
that they were given free accounts on various systems. I asked,
honestly innocently, how they felt about the fact that such
contributions were illegal. She basically had no clue that
corporate
contributions are a no-no.
There were more sessions, but... And there were the EFF pioneer
awards... Ward Christen's talk was fun -- things haven't changed
all
that much, it now takes about as long to figure out how to hook up
a
hard drive to your PC on some SCSI board as it took him to wire
wrap
and figure out how to build his own 8" floppy controller back then
(etc. etc.).
And then there was the after dinner talk... Willis Ware, Rand
Corp.,
gave a nice talk about privacy -- and ssn use and misuse. He had
lots
to say about how California's new requirement of ssn for a driver's
license or vehicle registration is a major problem. Over the last
55
years, we've been having our privacy worn down little by little
--each time the reason was valid and good. Yet the overall effect
is
not. Another part of his talk was that policy is being made by
private businesses concerned with profits.
I'm wiped out now since I have to get back there by 08:30 (Who the
hell starts a conference THAT early!!!!!). WIll try for more
detail
later...
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date: Thu, Mar 11, 1993 (02:12)
From: Robert David Steele <steeler@well.sf.ca.us>
Subject: File 3--Computer Freedom and Privacy III Conf. (Report 3)
It has been great. No video though (although I have SEEN a video
camera running around, the officially available product seems to be
audio tapes). Mark Graham and Tim Pozar tutorial on INTERNET was
very
fine, well-paced, with excellent hand-outs ("the" book--thank you
Bill
McDonald for an early copy), good slides, and excellent list of
access
points. Missed afternoon session in order to give a rant at
INTERVAL.
Nicholas Johnson Thomas Jefferson (Barlow gently points out Tom got
it
from Madison) focus on public libraries, education, and cheap
postal
rates for books as foundation for democracy, we are in negotiation
about his doing a speech on what Gore should be doing to honor
these
founding father visions in the age of cyberspace. Panel on
electronic
democracy, consisting of Jim Warren as chair, Bill Behnk, Richard
Civille, Mark Graham, Sarah Gray, and James Packard Love, was
SUPERB.
I want to transplant it, without a single change, to my OSS 93. I
was
really taken with each speaker. Mark Graham's vision and
intelligence, Sarah Gray's self-effacing discussion of reality
(perhaps the law is irrelevant Glenn--we all use the office
telephones
and tools for personal business), Richard Civille's focus on what
Gore
and tools can do to help the poor bootstrap, and James Packard
Love's
visible, earnest intensity about cost and access to government
information were MARVELOUS.
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