[80639] in Cypherpunks
Re: Key Recovery / The True Story
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ernest Hua)
Fri May 23 19:40:39 1997
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Cc: hua@chromatic.com
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 13:59:21 -0700
From: Ernest Hua <hua@chromatic.com>
Reply-To: Ernest Hua <hua@chromatic.com>
> And some government spook is going to break into a church's computer
> to find out if they are secret terrorists because they oppose this
> or that government policy.
This is an interesting point on which very little serious debate is
taking place:
Is it EVER okay for spooks to break into a church's computer to
find out if they are secret terrorists?
I'm not sure the answer is clearly one way or another, and I am
willing to bet that the tone of the answers will mostly be emotional
appeals to some idealistic standard or pessimistic nightmares.
A meta question is whether the answer to a question like this one
above can be answer strictly through a "for all practical purposes it
would never affect me so it does not matter" answer.
Ern
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Chromatic Research, 615 Tasman Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1707
Phone: 408 752-9375, Fax: 408 752-9301, E-Mail: hua@chromatic.com
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Chromatic Research, 615 Tasman Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1707
Phone: 408 752-9375, Fax: 408 752-9301, E-Mail: hua@chromatic.com
