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Re: Obama's secure PDA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?UTF-8?Q?Ivan_Krsti=C4=87?=)
Mon Feb 2 15:40:35 2009
From: =?UTF-8?Q?Ivan_Krsti=C4=87?= <krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu>
To: Cryptography List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <DD62867E-CDFE-4A2F-94DA-313107A6BE96@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu>
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 23:53:40 -0500
On Jan 29, 2009, at 11:17 PM, Ivan Krsti=C4=87 wrote:
> I'd find mobile e-mail just as useful if it went through a proxy =20
> that stripped out _everything_ that's not plaintext. I open =20
> attachments on my phone about once in a blue moon, and wouldn't miss =20=
> the ability if it were gone.
As a postscript, it appears this type of proxy is exactly what's been =20=
set up:
"To minimize the risk, the government technology gurus
have made it impossible to forward e-mail messages from
the president or to send him attachments, people
informed about the precautions say."
-- <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/us/politics/01obama.html>
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Ivan Krsti=C4=87 <krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | http://radian.org
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