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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 09:32:53 -0800
From: nessett(_at_)ocfmail(_dot_)ocf(_dot_)llnl(_dot_)gov (Dan Nessett)
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In a side conversation with another person, they suggest that its the
clients that wish to remain anonymous. However, I think it is unlikely the
social worker would be willing to operate in this manner. The social worker
doesn't want the
clients to remain anonymous, since he/she has to either charge them (in the
case of private treatment) or justify to his/her superiors that he/she has a
suitable caseload (in the case of governmentally funded treatment) and not
just a bunch of anonymous email which he/she could have easily generated.
My example was *not* hypothetical. This is a real situation. Yes, there is
a real demand for this service.
In general we need to be more broad minded about the applications that we
can provide security services for. An argument that is based on "no one
wants that service" is a very poor one if used to support the argument
that the service should be prohibited.
-Jeff