re jerry berman on pseudonymous privacy nobody alumni cco caltech edu correctly states jerry berman s view on privacy but he mistakenly assumes that this represents berman s view as eff executive director as one of the people who convinced jerry that legal protections for privacy are insufficient and that technical measures especially public key cryptography are also vitally necessary i can tell you that jerry and eff are fully committed to this position the previous poster is apparently unaware of a long series of eff positions in support of this view i suggest those interested read eff s position on clipper or our other work in digital privacy check ftp eff org for more details one of the great things about human beings is that they are capable of change and evolution in their thinking the idea that crypto is critical to privacy is one which is no longer limited to certain net afficianados but is spreading to parts of the public policy community in washington mitch kapor co founder eff
