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Re: WWW Bill Of Rights?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren New)
Sat Jan 21 16:50:15 1995
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 22:13:35 +0100
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From: Darren New <dnew@sgf.fv.com>
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> How can that be enforced? (I've been wondering how the -m
> option to PGP can *really* keep decrypted cleartext off the recipient's
> disk; recipient could very well have modified PGP to ignore it, no?)
> (then again, I'm new to PGP and so may have misunderstood the meaning)
The intent, I think, is to keep you from *accidentally* leaving the
unencrypted text around. Obviously if you run it in something like
"script" you can save the output.
> There's a senseless (IMHO) law that you can't listen in on
> people's cel-phone conversations. The reason it's senseless is that
> [kinda like gun control] only the good guys will comply. It gives
> the end user (here the cel-phone customer) a false sense of security.
It's interesting to note that police can arrest you for what you say over
the cell-phone that someone else heard, as long as they weren't
*intentionally* listening for you. Bleh.
> We've been putting a lot of value on privacy here in the US
> lately. I'll have to go back and re-read the constitution, but I
> don't think we're guaranteed a right to privacy. Freedom of speech,
Depends on which constitution. Don't forget we have 51 of them if not more.
Many states have explicit rights to privacy in their constitutions.
--Darren
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